Chiefdom of Chuchen

Chiefdom of Chuchen (Tibetan: ཆུ་ཆེན་, Wylie: chu chen; Chinese: 促侵土司; pinyin: Cùqīn Tǔsī), also known as Rabden or the Chiefdom of Greater Jinchuan (Chinese: 大金川土司; pinyin: Dà Jīnchuān Tǔsī; Tibetan: ཏ་གྱིན་ཆྭན་ཐུའུ་བསི), was an autonomous Gyalrong Tusi chiefdom that ruled Greater Jinchuan (present day Jinchuan County, Sichuan) during the Qing dynasty. The rulers of Chuchen used the royal title Namkha Gyalpo (Tibetan: ནམ་མཁའ་རྒྱལ་པོ, Wylie: nam mkhav rgyal po),[1] literally "king of Namkha".

Chiefdom of Chuchen
ཆུ་ཆེན་
1723–1776
StatusChiefdom under the Chinese Tusi system
CapitalChuchen (in present day Jinchuan County)
Common languagesGyarung
GovernmentMonarchy
Namkha Gyalpo 
 1723–1760
Slob Dpon (first)
 1760–17??
Lang Kashi
 17??–1776
Sonom (last)
History 
 Established
1723
 Disestablished
1776
Succeeded by
Qing dynasty
Today part ofChina

Chieftains of Chuchen had family relationship with chieftains of Tsanlha (Lesser Jinchuan). The first Chuchen chieftain was Slob Dpon, he was appointed by the Qing dynasty in 1723. Slob Dpon married a daughter to Tsewang, the chieftain of Tsanlha. Tsewang was cowardly. Slob Dpon deposed Tsewang and annexed Tsanlha in 1746; then, he invaded neighbouring chiefdoms. In 1747, the Qing dynasty launched the First Jinchuan campaign. Slob Dpon had to abdicated to his son Lang Kashi.[2]

The Second Jinchuan campaign broke out in 1771. Two years later, chief Sonom surrendered. The Chiefdom of Chuchen was abolished, the Qing dynasty started to rule this area directly.[3][4]

References

  1. 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 52. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.
  2. Zhao, Erxundate=(2003 printing). Qing shi gao. 趙爾巽, 1844-1927. (Di 1 ban ed.). Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju. ISBN 9787101007503. OCLC 55513807.
  3. Draft History of Qing, vol. 300
  4. Wei, Yuan (2011). Sheng wu ji : fu yi sou kou hai ji. Yang, Shenzhi., Xia, Jianqin., Li, Hu., 杨慎之., 夏剑钦., 李瑚. (Di 1 ban ed.). Changsha: Yue lu shu she. ISBN 9787807615491. OCLC 750093258.
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