Chinese Tartary

English

Etymology

From Chinese +‎ Tartary.

Proper noun

Chinese Tartary

1. Regions ruled by the Qing outside China proper.
   • 1983 April 10, R.V. Denenberg, “THE PAST SEEN IN A WORLD OF MAPS”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Travel‎^[2]:

     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.

Further reading

• Chinese Tartary at Google Ngram Viewer