Chin-ch'uan

A magnificent find was reported in Wen Wu, 1966, 3, from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province.

1971, Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver, number 2, →OCLC, page 14

Figs. 2.44a-c Dhyānāsana Buddha with mandorla, canopy and 4-footed stand, from Yü-tu hsiang, Chin-ch'uan hsien, eastern Kansu, gilt bronze, Phase II, Kansu sheng po-wu-kuan, Lan chou

2002, Marylin Martin Rhie, Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, volume 2, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xiii

The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently he was a marrying monk) multiplied and spread out to inhabit the drainage area of the Chin Ch'uan or Gold River. During the early Ch'ing period when feudatories were conferred by the Manchu rulers, this region was divided up into the Ta-chin-ch'uan or Great Gold River, and the Hsiao-chin-ch'uan or Little Gold River territories.

1954, Herold J. Wiens, “Tribal Uprisings”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 192

He professed to have twice defeated the Sungars in Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, once suppressed the rebellion of Moslems in Turkestan, twice put down insurrections in the Chin-ch’uan region in western Szechwan, once pacified a rebellion in Taiwan (Formosa), subjugated Burma and Annam, and twice vanquished the Gurkhas.

1956, Chien-nung Li, The Political History of China 1840-1928, D. Van Nostrand Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7

Even in easternmost Kham, adjacent to China proper, Ch’ing control was not easily maintained, especially in Chin-ch’uan (rGyal-rong), where the native Bon religion was stronger than in most parts of Tibet, and where the people spoke a Tibetan language that differed substantially from the dialects of Tibet proper.

1978, Joseph Fletcher, “Ch’ing Inner Asia c. 1800”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China, volume 10, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94

Ch'ang-lu merchants subscribed[...]200 000 [taels] in 1748 to the suppression of the first Chin-ch'uan rebellion in the Tibetan borderlands;[....]

1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126

The Ch’ing also had difficulties in the Chin-ch’uan, a very mountainous region in north-western Szechwan, where the local inhabitants, whose culture was Tibetan, rebelled from 1746-9 onwards.

2002, Jacques Gernet, “The Enlightened Despots”, in A History of Chinese Civilisation, volume II, The Folio Society, →OCLC, page 508