Chinese Tartaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Chinese +‎ Tartary.

固有名詞

Chinese Tartary

1. Regions ruled by the Qing outside China proper.
   • 1832, Charles Lyell, chapter VI, in Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation, volume II, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 94:

     The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.

   • 1983 April 10, R.V. Denenberg, “THE PAST SEEN IN A WORLD OF MAPS”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Travel‎:

     For eccentric charm and historic patina few purchasable antiques rival early maps. Even if you cannot tell Mercator's projection from anyone else's, you can appreciate these oddly distorted but touchingly sincere portraits of the earth as viewed from another age. Once-imagined islands, extinct peoples and lost cities from the New World to Chinese Tartary reappear in vividly colored engravings, embellished with trumpeting cherubs and snorting sea monsters.

   • 2024 March 10, Peter Neville-Hadley, “How European maps of China helped paint a picture of the Middle Kingdom during the age of exploration”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 10, 2024, History‎:

     D’Anville’s overall map of China is claimed to be the most comprehensive to date, including both Tibet and Chinese Tartary (Manchuria and Mongolia), as well as territory as far west as the Caspian Sea.

Further reading

• Chinese Tartary at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.