ch'in-ling

Updated: June 4, 2025

The kingdom could only be seriously attacked from two corners through the north-west, where there was a negotiable plateau, between the Ch'in-ling mountains in the north and the Tibetan mountains in the west, a plateau inhabited by fairly highly developed Tibetan tribes; and secondly through the south-east corner, where it would be possible to penetrate up the Yangtze.

Wolfram Eberhard - A History of China