Chinese Tartary

Proper noun

Chinese Tartary

1. Regions ruled by the Qing outside China proper.
   • 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.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...
   • 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...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