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Chinghai

British  
/ ˈtʃɪŋˈhaɪ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Qinghai

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Born June 6, 1935, in the Chinese province of Chinghai, the Dalai Lama was one of six children of a peasant who lived near a three-storied monastery with a golden roof.

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Last week another of the Ma clan, once-rambunctious General Ma Puching, peacefully accepted appointment as Commissioner of Reclamation in the dreary swamplands of Chinghai Province near Tibet.

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From Sining, capital of his own Chinghai province, where he has been lord and governor since 1936, he sent a column of his Moslem cavalry to Lanchow.

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In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance.

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He kept inflation out of Chinghai; today one silver dollar, worth about one U.S. dollar, will buy 200 eggs or five live sheep.

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