People
Chahar Mongols
Цахар
Three travelers wrote about Chahar Mongols between 1893 and 1929. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
The Mongol borderland adjoining China, governed from Kalgan — first by the Manchus, then by Chinese warlords.
…Mongolian allegiance to the Manchu rulers of China, except for Chahar, has been a mutual-benefit arrangement; the Mongols paid no material tribute to the…Listen from here · chapter 1, 14:06…We first made a survey of Angul Nor, the largest sheet of water in Chahar, measuring the greatest width of the heart-shaped lake as seven miles and the average…Listen from here · chapter 11, 0:44 - 1902
Journeys in Mongolia
A southern Mongol group settled along the Wall north of Kalgan, organised by the Qing into the Eight Chahar Banners under direct military administration. The author toured their country in 1899.
…a Khalha hoshun of the Inner Mongols and the territory of two Chahar banners and the Imperial Horse Pastures, to the ancient summer seat of the Yuan emperors,…Listen from here · chapter 4, 6:42…Hsi-pei-miao (North-West Temple) or Shibe Sume, we passed from the Chahar country (Gul-kuku, or Plain Blue banner) into the Geshikten hoshun of the Inner Mongols.Listen from here · chapter 4, 14:53 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The warlike Mongol tribe from along the Great Wall. A Chahar detachment under a former hunghutze chief, sent by the Chinese authorities, looted its way through Uliassutai before riding on toward Kobdo.
Burglaries, squabbles and drunken orgies of the Chahars followed, so that Wang Tsoa-tsun exerted all his efforts to hurry the detachment westward…Listen from here · chapter 22, 2:12…by Tushegoun Lama and so treated that never again will the plains of Chahar welcome the return of these warrior sons who were sent out to conquer the Soyot…Listen from here · chapter 22, 3:59
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