stack clear true Location map China float right width 250 label Qaidam lat 37.266667 long 94.45 mark Green pog.svg position right caption Location of Qaidam in China File Qaidam basin china.jpg thumb 250px Qaidam Basin Nasa satellite view Qaidam Basin , also spelled Tsaidam from lang mn , salt marsh or wide valley zh s t p Ch id m P nd is an hyperarid Depression geology basin that occupies a large part of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province ... of salt lakes in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, China. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology ... is known in Chinese as Chaidamu Pendi Shamo , i.e. Qaidam Basin Desert. The Qaidam Basin forms ... 14,000 feet above sea level, the Qaidam about 10,000 and Gansu to the north about 3,000 to 4,000 feet. A low water divide separates the Qaidam Basin proper from that of Qinghai Lake to the east. Orography Orographically , the Qaidam Basin is a comparatively low areas in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau . ref name meng citation contribution Cenozoic tectonic development of the Qaidam Basin ... BligM888ki0C&pg PA1 pages 1 2 ref Qaidam is an intermontane basin, i.e. it is surrounded on all sides ..., the Altyn Tagh separates the Qaidam Basin from the Kumtagh Desert of southeastern Xinjiang . File .... Qaidam is also home to the Qarhan Lake , which contains sixty billion tons of salt . There are 22 ... metres of gas. File Mine in Tsaidam.jpg thumb none 300px Mine in Qaidam Tsaidam Desert Notes references ... on Qaidam http columbia.thefreedictionary.com Qaidam Columbia Encyclopedia on Qaidam http eol.jsc.nasa.gov sseop efs photoinfo.pl?PHOTO STS040 613 11 Nasa Qaidam Basin, China Deserts Basins of China Qinghai ... Category Drainage basins of China Qinghai geo stub ar de Qaidam Becken et Qaidam es Cuenca de Qaidam eo Tsaidam fr Qaidam gd Qaidam ko ka mn nl Tsaidam ja pl Kotlina Cajdamska ru fi Qaidam uk vi Qaidam zh ... more details
Infobox settlement name Da Qaidam translit lang1 Chinese character Chinese translit lang1 type Chinese character Chinese translit lang1 info translit lang1 type1 Pinyin translit lang1 info1 postal code type Postal code settlement type Administrative Committee image skyline image map map caption Location of the county subdivision type Country subdivision name People s Republic of China China subdivision type1 Province subdivision name1 Qinghai subdivision type2 Prefecture subdivision name2 Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture area total km2 population population as of population density km2 auto latNS latd latm lats longEW longd longm longs elevation ft elevation m timezone China Standard Time China Standard utc offset 8 website Da Qaidam Chinese is an Administrative Committee of Qinghai Province , China . It is under the administration of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture . County level divisions of Qinghai coord 37.8333 N 95.3 E source kolossus dewiki display title Category County level divisions of Qinghai Qinghai geo stub de Da Qaidam fr Comit administratif de Da Qaidam ko ja ru vi i S i n zh ... more details
Qinghai , the much larger Qaidam Basin starts between the Altyn Tagh and the Kunlun and extends ... the boundary between the Tarim Basin to the north and the Qaidam Basin and Lake Achak kum one ... development of the Qaidam Basin in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau first Qing Ren last Meng first2 ... more details
File Ming Expeditions.svg thumb 500px Chen Cheng s voyages in the context of the Yongle era military and diplomatic activity. Chen Cheng s approximate overland route as based on the list of destinations in harvnb Goodrich Tay 1976 is in green, along with the maritime route of Zheng He in black and the riverine route of Yishiha in blue Chen Cheng Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Ch n Ch ng 1365 1457 , Ming dynasty diplomat , style name Zi Lu pseudonym Zhu Shan . Biography Born 1365 in Linchuan county of Jiangxi province. In 1393, he obtained the title of Ju ren , 1394 Gong shi , later at the Imperial examination Imperial court examination , he obtained grade 3A, and granted the title of . In 1396 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to the western region of Qaidam Chai Da Mu to establish border defence. In 1397 he was sent by the Emperor as an envoy to Vietnam . From 1406 to 1411 he served in the Wenyuange , The Imperial library in the Forbidden City as editor of the Yongle Encyclopedia . In 1414, 1416, and 1420 Chen Cheng led Ming mission to the court of the Timurid dynasty Timurids at Samarkand . sfn Tsai 2002 p 162 Works by Chen Cheng Travel in the Western Region Xi yu fan guo zhi , A Record of the Barbarian Countries in the Western Region. See also Ghiy th al d n Naqq sh , the diarist of Shahrukh s embassy to the Yongle Emperor s court 1420 1422 . Ruy Gonz les de Clavijo , another diplomat from Spain who visited Samarkand a few years before Chen Cheng. Notes Reflist References F. J. Hecker, A fifteenth century Chinese diplomat in Herat, Joumal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd series p85 91, 1993. citation first Shih Shan Henry last Tsai title Perpetual Happiness The Ming Emperor Yongle publisher University of Washington Press year 2002 isbn 0295981245 url http books.google.com.au books?id aU5hBMxNgWQC citation url http books.google.com books?id 067On0JgItAC&pg PA144 contribution Ch en Ch eng first1 L. Carrington last1 ... more details
About an ancient kingdom in China named Charklik a city in China historically named Charklik Ruoqiang disambiguation Ruoqiang Charklik or Charkhlik, the Uighur name, official now called by its modern Chinese name Ruoqiang County Ruoqiang , was an ancient kingdom located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People s Republic of China . History Charklik was the name for an ancient kingdom that was located in modern Ruoqiang County in Xinjiang. It was part of the Kingdom of Loulan from at least the 1st century BCE, although the name was subsequently changed to Shanshan in 77 CE. During the latter part of the Former Han and throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty Later Han the capital of the kingdom of Shanshan was known as Y ni , which was located near the present town of Ruoqiang Town Ruoqiang . ref Hill 2009 , pp. 91 92. ref The famous explorer and archaeologist, Aurel Stein visited the small oasis of Charklik in 1906, where he found a little village that was the official headquarters of a very large district, almost all desert, and including the salt lake known as Lop Nor . The district, however, only contained about five hundred households, even including the semi nomadic herders and fishermen called Lopliks . Stein says there is conclusive evidence that it was already the chief centre of the region when the Buddhist monk Xuanzang passed through on his way home to China in 645 CE. Marco Polo also passed through here in the 13th century and referred to the region as Lop . ref Stein 1932 , p. 83. ref ref Hill, p. 97. ref Description Charklik was the last stop before Dunhuang on the difficult Southern Silk Route from Khotan before crossing the much feared salt pans of Lop Nor between them. An alternate route from modern Charklik heads south through the Qaidam Desert which then turns northeast to Dunhuang, or south to Lhasa . There is also an ancient route leading north across the Taklamakan Desert to Korla . Northeast of the town of Ruoqiang is the importaqnt ... more details
Image DEMQilianShan.png thumb Qilian Shan mountains, China coord 39 12 N 98 32 E display title The Qilian Mountains zh c p Q li n Sh n , also Nan Shan southern mountains , Mongghul Chileb, viz., as seen from the Silk Road is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains , forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China . ref cite book url http books.google.com books?ei r5DlTbOzK8X10gH6 czLBQ&ct result&id IKVGAAAAMAAJ&dq the troops of Ma Bufang in the Qilian Mountains on the border of Gansu and Qinghai 2C only to escape and return to an&q bufang title The Journal of Asian studies, Volume 62, Issue 1 author Association for Asian Studies, Far Eastern Association U.S. editor year 2003 publisher Association for Asian Studies edition location page 262 isbn 0691096767 pages accessdate 2010 06 28 ref Geography The range stretches from the south of Dunhuang some 800 km to the southeast, forming the northeastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau Qinghai Tibet Plateau and the southwestern border of the Gansu Corridor . The eponymous Qilian Shan peak, situated some 60 km south of Jiuquan , at coord 39 12 N 98 32 E , rises to 5,547 m, constituting Gansu s highest elevation. It is the highest peak of the main range, but there are two higher peaks further south, Kangze gyai at coord 38 30 N 97 43 E with http www.peakbagger.com peak.aspx?pid 14100 5,808 m and Qaidam Shan peak at coord 38 2 N 95 19 E with http www.peakbagger.com peak.aspx?pid 14203 5,759 m . The range continues to the west as Yema Shan 5,250 m and Altun Shan 5,798 m . To the east, it passes north of Qinghai Lake , terminating as Daban Shan and Xinglong Shan near Lanzhou , with Maoma Shan peak 4,070 m an eastern outlier. Sections of the Ming Dynasty s Great Wall pass along its northern slopes, and south of northern outlier Longshou Shan 3,616 m . The Qilian mountains are the source of numerous, mostly small, rivers and creeks that flow northeast, enabling irrigated agricultu ... more details
. This includes an urban area of convert 72 km . Golmud is located in the central south part of the QaidamQaidam Basin with an elevation of convert 2809 m . Around the city there are more than 20 salt ... more details
1957. The city also has a leather industry and is a market for salt from the Qaidam region. During ... of a highway to the mineral rich Qaidam basin and completion in 1959 a link to the Chinese ... and southern China northern China into Tibet and the Qaidam Basin . These routes are now followed ... at Lanzhou this railway extends into the Qaidam area via Haiyan County, Qinghai Haiyan near Qinghai ... more details
Infobox religious biography background FFA500 name S ng Y n image caption religion Buddhism school Mahayana lineage sect temple alias monastic name S ng Y n pen name posthumous name dharma name location Northern Wei Northern Wei Dynasty title period fl. c. 518 522 predecessor successor ordination post previous post present post birth date date unknown birth place Dunhuang nationality death date unknown death place date unknown resting place resting place coordinates teacher students works reincarnation of Song Yun Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese pinyin S ng Y n Wade Giles Sung Y n was a Chinese Buddhist monk who was sent by the devout Buddhist Empress Dowager Hu Empress Hu ? 528 CE of the Northern Wei Northern Wei Dynasty with some companions including the Bhikkhu monk Hui Zheng, Fa Li and Zheng or Wang Fouze, to northwestern India to search for Buddhist texts. They left the Wei capital Luoyang , on foot in 518 and returned in the winter of 522 with 170 Mahayana Buddhist texts. ref name Chavannes pp. 379 380 harvnb Chavannes 1903 pp 379 380 ref The Voyage Song Yun, who was originally from Dunhuang , and one of his companions, Hui Zheng, both wrote accounts of their journey, but they have since disappeared. Song Yun took the Qinghai Route via Xining , past Koko Nur and through the Qaidam depression, probably joining the main Southern Silk Route near Shanshan Loulan . The route at the time was under the control of the Tuyuhun Tibetan Azha people. ref http dsr.nii.ac.jp rarebook 07 ref Fortunately, much valuable information about their journey has been preserved in the Loyang Jielanji of Yang Xianzhi and other texts. There are some minor discrepancies among the surviving sources as to the exact dates of the journey and the names of the people who made the trip together, but douard Chavannes believes it is possible to work out the itinerary with some confidence. ref name Chavannes p. 381. harvnb Chavannes 1903 p 381 ref Hui Zheng and the others were sent ... more details
water lake in China, and the second largest in the world. citation needed date November 2010 QaidamQaidam basin lies in northwestern Qinghai. About a third of this resource rich basin is desert. The basin ... . Economy File Oil well in Tsaidam.jpg thumb left Oil well in Tsaidam Qaidam , Qinghai Qinghai ... more details
This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peak s with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres in Tibet , East Asia and neighbouring areas of India and Burma. Kunlun Mountains class wikitable sortable No Peak Country Elevation m Prominence m Col m 1 Altun Shan CHN 5,830 2,528 3302 2 Tekilik Shan CHN 5,450 2,316 3134 3 Kangze Gyai CHN 5,808 2,231 3577 4 Sulamutag Feng CHN 6,245 2,028 4217 5 Dradullungshong CHN 6,282 1,960 4322 6 Liushi Shan CHN 7,167 1,946 5221 7 Ulugh Muztagh CHN 6,973 1,943 5030 8 Aleke Tag ref First recorded ascent by Janne Corax on 7 September 2010. ref CHN 6,065 1,923 4142 9 Bukadaban Feng CHN 6,860 1,922 4938 10 Ak Tag CHN 6,748 1,920 4828 11 HP Ayaliktag Range ref First recorded ascent bt Janne Corax on 1 October 2010. ref CHN 6,130 1,728 4402 12 Sob Gangri CHN 6,224 1,674 4550 13 Selik Gulam Muztag CHN 6,691 1,660 5031 14 Mush Muztagh CHN 6,638 1,631 5007 15 Kogantag CHN 4,800 1,611 3189 16 HP Qilian Shan CHN 5,547 1,593 4982 17 Nan Shan CHN 4,880 1,540 3340 18 Point 5350 CHN 5,350 1,537 3813 19 Karakash Shan CHN 6,510 1,528 4982 20 Chung Muztagh CHN 6,962 1,512 5450 21 Qaidam Shan CHN 5,759 1,500 4259 Western Tibet and neighboring areas class wikitable sortable No Peak Country Elevation m Prominence m Col m 1 Kangju Kangri IND 6,725 2,147 4578 2 Lunpo Gangri CHN 7,095 1,941 5154 3 Shakangshan CHN 6,822 1,914 4908 4 Bangong CHN 6,260 1,879 4381 5 Nganglong Kangri CHN 6,720 1,772 4948 6 Point 6300 IND CHN 6,300 1,660 4640 7 Shahi Kangri IND 6,934 1,580 5354 8 Kataklik Kangri IND CHN 6,897 1,543 5354 South eastern Tibet and neighboring areas class wikitable sortable No Peak Country Elevation m Prominence m Col m 1 Gyala Peri CHN 7,294 2,942 4352 2 Bairiga CHN 6,882 2,444 4438 3 Nyainqentanglha Feng CHN 7,162 2,239 4923 4 Sepu Kangri CHN 6,956 2,213 4743 5 Kawarani CHN 5,992 2,018 3974 6 Mount Genyen CHN 6,204 2,000 4204 7 Point 6327 CHN 6,327 1,863 4464 8 Chola Shan CHN 6,168 1,703 4465 9 Point 6310 CHN 6,310 1,6 ... more details
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