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Joseph Rock, the Glossary

Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American botanist, explorer, geographer, linguist, ethnographer and photographer.^[1]

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Amne Machin

Amne Machin, Anyi Machen, or Anyê Maqên ("Grandfather Pomra") is the highest peak of a mountain range of the same name in the southeast of Qinghai province, China.

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Anton Heimerl

Anton Heimerl (15 February 1857, Budapest - 4 March 1943, Wien) was an Austrian botanist. Joseph Rock and Anton Heimerl are 20th-century Austrian botanists.

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Army Map Service

The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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Arnold Arboretum

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a botanical research institution and free public park, located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Brighamia rockii

Brighamia rockii, known as the Molokai ohaha or Pua ala in Hawaiian, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae, that is endemic to the island of Molokaokinai in Hawaii.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.

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Chiefdom of Yongning

Chiefdom of Yongning was a Mosuo autonomous Tusi chiefdom during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Dongba

Dongba (Nakhi: ²dto¹mba) refers to both the religion and the priests of the Nakhi people of southwest China.

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Edgar Parks Snow (July 19, 1905 – February 15, 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on communism in China and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Joseph Rock and Edgar Snow are American expatriates in China.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. Joseph Rock and Ezra Pound are American sinologists.

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Flowering plant

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.

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Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geographer

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.

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Golok conflicts (1917–1949)

The Ma clique fought a series of military campaigns between 1917 and 1949 against unconquered Amchok and Ngolok (Golok) tribal Tibetan areas of Qinghai (Amdo), undertaken by two Hui commanders, Gen.

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Golok people

The Golok or Ngolok peoples live in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China around the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the sacred mountain Amne Machin.

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Harvard–Yenching Institute

The Harvard–Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Hydnocarpus wightianus

Hydnocarpus wightianus or chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family.

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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Naxi: Jingv'lv or Ngv'lv bbei jjuq) is a mountain massif or small mountain range in Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, Lijiang, in Yunnan province, China.

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Jonê County

Jonê County (also Cone, Chone, Choni;; local pronunciation: /tɕɔLnɛ/) is a county in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China.

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Kalimpong

Kalimpong is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kangyur

The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur.

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Kumbum

A Kumbum ("one hundred thousand holy images") is a multi-storied aggregate of Buddhist chapels in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Labrang Monastery

Labrang Monastery (Chinese: Lābǔléng Sì, 拉卜楞寺) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Leprosy

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lijiang

Lijiang, formerly romanized as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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List of explorers

The following is a list of explorers.

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Lugu Lake

Lugu Lake is located in the northwest of the Yunnan plateau, with the middle of the lake forming the border between the Ninglang County of Yunnan Province and the Yanyuan County of Sichuan Province.

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Ma clique

The Ma clique or Ma family warlords is a collective name for a group of Hui (Muslim Chinese) warlords in Northwestern China who ruled the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia for 10 years from 1919 until 1928.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Mid-Pacific Institute

Mid-Pacific Institute is a private, co-educational college preparatory school for grades preschool through twelve with an approximate enrollment of 1,538 students, the majority of whom are from Hawaii (although many also come from other states and other countries, such as Japan, South Korea, China, Canada, Australia, Marshall Islands and countries in Europe and Africa).

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Mosuo

The Mosuo (also spelled Moso, Mosso or Musuo), often called the Naxi among themselves, are a small ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces.

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Mount Gongga

Mount Gongga, also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan:, Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo) and colloquially as "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the highest mountain in Sichuan province, China.

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Muli Tibetan Autonomous County

Muli Tibetan Autonomous County (smi-li rang-skyong-rdzong; Yi: ꃆꆹꀒꋤꊨꏦꏱꅉꑤ mup li op zzup zyt jie jux dde xiep) is in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Sichuan province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the southwest.

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Muslim conflict in Gansu (1927–1930)

The Muslim Conflict in Gansu broke out when a coalition of Muslim generals revolted against the Guominjun in 1927.

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Nakhi people

The Nakhi, Nashi or Naxi (Naxi: Naqxi) are a people inhabiting the Hengduan Mountains abutting the Eastern Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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Nationalist government

The Nationalist government, officially the National Government of the Republic of China, refers to the government of the Republic of China from 1 July 1925 to 20 May 1948, led by the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party.

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Nyctaginaceae

Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions.

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Paeonia rockii

Paeonia rockii, or Rock's peony, is a woody species of tree peony that was named after Joseph Rock.

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Palmyra Atoll

Palmyra Atoll, also referred to as Palmyra Island, is one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati).

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Photographer

A photographer (the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.

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Qinghai Lake

Qinghai Lake, also known by other names, is the largest lake in China.

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Rakya Monastery

Rakya Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Qinghai, China.

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Rockia

Rockia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae.

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Sichuan

Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is an institutional archives and library system comprising 21 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers.

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Southwestern China

Southwestern China is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China.

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Tengyur

The Tengyur or Tanjur or Bstan-’gyur (Tibetan: "Translation of Teachings") is included in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of all of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings, and is placed after the Kangyur.

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Territory of Hawaii

The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory (Hawaiian: Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th U.S.

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The Cantos

The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long poem in 109 sections plus a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement at the request of the poem's American publisher, James Laughlin.

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The Hump

The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rock

Also known as Joseph F. Rock, Joseph Francis Charles Rock, Rock, Joseph.

, Qinghai Lake, Rakya Monastery, Rockia, Sichuan, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Southwestern China, Tengyur, Territory of Hawaii, The Cantos, The Hump, Tibet, Tusi, University of Hawaiʻi, Vienna, Yunnan.

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American phycologists

Austrian explorers

Austrian geographers

Austrian sinologists

Botanists active in China

Botanists active in the Pacific

Explorers from Austria-Hungary

Explorers of Tibet

Linguists from Austria

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