Hai-hsi

A form of Haixi — A Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Haixi.

    Now the Hai-hsi (West Tsinghai) Autonomous Region, the Hai-pei (North Tsinghai) Autonomous Region, and the Huang-nan (South of Yellow River) Autonomous Region have completely been communalized; 87% of the herdsmen in[…]

    1968, Nai-min Ling, Tibet, 1950-1967, →OCLC, page 327
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    The article claimed that communes had been set up in Hai-hsi (West Chinghai), Hai-pei (North Chinghai), Huang-nan (South of Yellow River) and Hai-nan (South Chinghai) autonomous regions and in two counties each in Yushu and Kolo autonomous regions.

    1960, Girilal Jain, “Tibetans Under Communism”, in Panchsheela and After: A Re-appraisal of Sino-Indian Relations in the Context of the Tibetan Insurrection, Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, page 76

    Prior to the liberation, doctors and medicine were nonexistent in the immense grassy plains of Hai-hsi.[…] The medical personnel of the Hai-hsi disease control team of the Tsinghai Local Disease Control Institute and the autonomous chou public health epidemics control station launched the work of disease prevention and cure and survey along the Tsinghai-Tibet Highway at the Thanglha Mountains.

    1974 November 21 [1974 September 21], “Cooperative Medicine Produces Red Flowers; New Atmosphere Appears in the K'un-lun Foothills”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 294, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO, 21 Sep 74, p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 6

Origin

  1. Mandarin海西
  2. EnglishHai-hsi

From Mandarin 海西 (Hǎixī) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-hsi¹.

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