by Liang Zhun

Eastern Tibet, or Kham, refers to a complex geographic, political and cultural reality. Historically, it is composed of a variable number of small chiefdoms. Geographically, its territory is crossed from north to south by four major rivers - the Yangtze (Dri in Tibetan), the Yalong (Nya), the Mekong (Dza) and the Salouen (Ngül). Six administrative divisions group together the traditional Kham territory: in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the prefecture of Qamdo (Chab mdo); two prefectures in Sichuan, Ganze (Garzê) and Aba (Ngawa), and a county of Liangshan prefecture, Muli (or Mili), which was the farthest outpost of the ancient Tibetan kingdoms; and finally, the autonomous prefectures of Deqên in Yunnan province and Yushu in Qinghai province...

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