Amba vs Amban - What's the difference?
amba | amban |
A Chinese official under the Qing Dynasty, especially the ranking official or provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule.
*1869 , , ‘Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar’, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society , vol. XL:
*:Regarding the scene before him with the calmness of a stoic, sits the grey-bearded old Ambân in his chair of state, quietly smoking a long pipe, while beside him kneel his weeping daughters, all conscious of their coming fate.
*1924 , (w), Tibet Past and Present , Delhi 2000, p. 46:
*:In 1846 Messrs. Huc and Gabet, two French Lazarist Fathers, visited Lhasa from the north, and stayed two and a half months, when they were expelled through the influence of the Chinese Amban .
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 388:
*:Although he was received there by a guard of honour of sorts, Elias found the amban , or senior Chinese official, openly hostile.