Yatung[1] or Yadong,[2] also known as Shasima (Tibetan: ཤར་གསིང་མ་, Wylie: shar gsing ma, THL: sharsingma, simplified Chinese: 下司马镇; traditional Chinese: 下司馬鎮; pinyin: Xiàsīmǎ Zhèn),[1][a]
is the principal town in the Chumbi Valley or Yadong County in the
Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is also its administrative headquarters.
^ abRichardson, Hugh (1998). High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings on Tibetan History and Culture. Serindia Publications. p. 547. ISBN 978-0-906026-46-5. The area of the Trade Marts was enlarged, and the site in the Chumbi valley was confirmed at Shasima (New Yatung) instead of at Old Yatung which had proved quite unsuitable.
^ ab"Chumbi Valley". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
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^"Get off your high horse". China Daily. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
^Krishnan, Ananth. "Tibet border town hopes for opening to India". India Today. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
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Yatung or Yadong, also known as Shasima (Tibetan: ཤར་གསིང་མ་, Wylie: shar gsing ma, THL: sharsingma, simplified Chinese: 下司马镇; traditional Chinese: 下司馬鎮;...
Old Yatung (Chinese: 老亚东; pinyin: Lǎo Yàdōng), originally just "Yatung", with a native Tibetan spelling of Nyatong or Myatong, is a location 2 miles west...
town of Yatung. The joint river is known in English by its Bhutanese name Amo Chu. (Tibetans continue to call it Khambu Machu.) The town of Yatung (also...
1890 and Younghusband expedition, the British established trading posts at Yatung and Lhasa, along with military detachments to protect them. These trade...
east of Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, and 35 kilometres (22 mi) from Yatung Shasima, the headquarters of the Yadong County (or the Chumbi Valley). Nathu...
main Chumbi valley, on the west bank of the Amo Chu river. A stream called Yatung Chu that brings waters from the Jelep La and Nathu La passes on the Sikkim...
established autonomy for the Limbu subbas. Phuntsog moved his capital from Yatung to Yuksam and instituted the first centralised administration. The kingdom...
overloading the dak bungalows, they travelled in two groups and arrived in Yatung at the beginning of April. Phari Dzong was reached on 5 April. After negotiations...
Lukhangwa, a senior lay official, by the Dalai Lama before he left for Yatung in the Chumbi Valley in December 1950 following the Chinese invasion of...
Chumbi Valley until the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1950, after which Yatung became its headquarters. Chumbi is also associated with the Sikkim's royal...
kukua/kua na yaw 'That is yours': kuam yatun 'That is hers': kuana yari/kuana yatung 'This': yaw, ye, yawe 'That' (item by person being spoken to): yatun or...
with Tibet, White was asked to investigate the location known as "Yatung" (Old Yatung) in the Chumbi Valley for the establishment of a trade mart. He subsequently...
tracks were in Mandarin, in keeping with a strong involvement by Zhang Yatung as arranger and ..." Edward L. Davis, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese...
of 1906. The main points of the treaty allowed the British to trade in Yatung, Gyantse, and Gartok while Tibet was to pay a large indemnity of 7,500,000...
were aware of the expedition; to avoid bloodshed, the Tibetan general at Yatung pledged that if the British made no attack upon the Tibetans, he would not...
1890 and Younghusband expedition, the British established trading posts at Yatung and Lhasa, along with military detachments to protect them. These trade...
further furious when they were told that the Dalai Lama’s seal was still in Yatung with him. The Chinese made new seal for Ngabo Shapé to stamp the document...
miles (4.8 km) along the Ammo Chu, and bivouacked for the night at Myatong (Yatung). The Tibetans were disorganized and did not oppose the enemy's progress...
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India while also allowing India to maintain three trade posts in Tibet at Yatung, Gyantse, and Gartok. In exchange, India was to allow China to keep three...
the world, although British representatives were stationed in Gyantse, Yatung and Gartok (western Tibet) after the Younghusband Mission. These so-called...
the Nyang Chu valley on the ancient trade routes from the Chumbi Valley, Yatung and Sikkim, which met here. From Gyantse, routes led to Shigatse downstream...
India pursued by two hundred Chinese cavalrymen, and rode to Phari and then Yatung in the Chumbi Valley, where he was given protection in the Trade Agency...
accompanied the train with the intention of rejoining the second group at Yatung. The route then took the expedition through Pedong and Pakhyong, until it...
Postal Agencies at Gartok, in Western Tibet, and Gyantse, Pharijong and Yatung, along the Indian trade route to Lhasa. Chinese forces occupied Tibet in...
British Bhutan and on the Sino-Tibetan border. In May 1894, she moved to Yatung (near Rinchengang) in the Chumbi Valley, where the British had a concession...
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