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Chinghai

British  
/ ˈtʃɪŋˈhaɪ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Qinghai

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations."

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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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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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Ma's army, about 250,000 strong, has drawn heavily on Chinghai manpower.

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On this it was stormed by the blue-jackets and marines, when the garrison effected their escape into the city, the walls of which were then scaled in two places, and Chinghai was captured.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

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