Gannan

Proper noun

Gannan

1. A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Gansu, China.
   • IN 1970 a hospital was set up in the Wankatan commune in the Kannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in south Kansu province.[1976 February, “Peking Doctors Settle in the Grasslands”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1
   • Some of the worst rioting outside Lhasa took place here in Gannan, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where the worlds of the Tibetans, Chinese and Hui Muslims converge. It is a dry area of herders roaming the plains and white-walled monasteries nestled against brown hillsides. At least 94 people -...
   • The most prominent monastery in eastern Tibet, Labrang, lies in the town of Xiahe, in western Gannan.2009 March 5, Edward Wong, “50 years after uprising, a clampdown on Tibetans”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...