Chahar

Borrowed from Manchu ᠴᠠᡥᠠᡵ (cahar), from Classical Mongolian ᠴᠠᠬᠠᠷ (čaqar).

Chahar

1. (historical) A former province of China, now mostly part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
   • 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 198:

     Chiang’s foreign office in Nanking denied that there were any provincial troops in the disputed area; there were only a few militia. At any rate, Nanking replied, the territory in question was part of the Kuyuan district, and Kuyuan was in Chahar, and Chahar was Chinese territory, so what were the Japanese complaining about?

   • 1962, Chalmers A. Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945‎, Stanford University Press, page 101:

     The border-area government resembled a provincial administration. It was headed by a six-man Border Region Administrative Committee with Sung Shao-wen as Chairman and Hu Jen-k'uei as Vice-Chairman. The other four committeemen were Nieh Jung-chen, Communist Party representative and local military commander; Liu Tien-chi, representative of the Kuomintang; Chang Su, regional representative for Chahar; and Sun Chih-yuan, regional representative for Hopei.

   • 1963, A. Doak Barnett, China on the Eve of Communist Takeover‎, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 28:

     The critical state of military affairs has increased the importance of Peiping as the government’s headquarters in north China. Not long ago, General Fu Tso-yi was appointed Commander of a new North China Communist Suppression Headquarters, with its center here, to direct and control all military operations in the provinces of Jehol, Chahar, Suiyuan, Hopeh, and part of Shansi.

   • 2005, Israel Epstein, History Should Not be Forgotten‎, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, page 19:

     In the summer of 1935 came another humiliation. The Ho-Umetsu “agreement” was stuffed down the throat of supine China. By its terms, Central Government troops were expelled from the provinces of Hebei and Chahar. No units of China’s ruling party, the Guomindang, could function in these provinces—not even in the great cities of Beiping and Tianjin.

   • 2021 October 13, Weiwei Xu, Aparajit Chakraborty, Arunava Das, “Doctor's inspiring legacy given a fresh take”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 13 October 2021:

     After determined efforts, Dwarkanath Kotnis finally arrived in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region in 1940 to be part of the Hundred-Regiment Campaign. He then moved to Gegong village, Tangxian county, Hebei province, where he performed surgeries in the line of fire.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chahar.