Lhasa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12562589 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E H C Walsh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1946 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 23-31 |
| Publication date | 1946-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00099949 |
| OpenAlex | W4229768751 |
| Language | EN |
Although Tibet is a large country, over 900 miles in its greatest length and over 800 miles in its greatest width, with a frontier of over 2,000 miles, very little was known about it before Sir Francis Younghusband's Expedition in 1903–4. The reason for this is its frontiers of high mountain ranges, some of them the highest in the world
Ancient history · Archaeology · Frontier · Geography · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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