Qinghai
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Definitions
- 1 A province in northwestern China. Capital: Xining.
"In Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, 300 schools in six xian surrounding the provincial capital, Xi’ning^([sic – meaning Xining]) (Sining), had 10,000 students in 1964. Part-work schools in the province enabled 8 per cent of the age-group to attend school, including some go per cent of those children from poor and lower middle peasant families (SCMP 3350, 1964). Qinghai (Chinghai) also reported 100 ‘tent-schools’, moving with the herdsmen over the grazing grounds."
- 2 A large lake in Qinghai province, the largest in China.
Example
More examples"In Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, 300 schools in six xian surrounding the provincial capital, Xi’ning^([sic – meaning Xining]) (Sining), had 10,000 students in 1964. Part-work schools in the province enabled 8 per cent of the age-group to attend school, including some go per cent of those children from poor and lower middle peasant families (SCMP 3350, 1964). Qinghai (Chinghai) also reported 100 ‘tent-schools’, moving with the herdsmen over the grazing grounds."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青海 /靑海 (Qīnghǎi, literally “Blue Sea”).
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