KIUNG TU AND KIEN TU.
Kiung tu or Kiang tu is Caindu in Sze-Ch'wan; Kien tu is in Yun Nan. Cf.
PELLIOT, Bul. Ecole franc. Ext. Orient, July-Sept, 1904, p. 771. Caindu
or Ning Yuan was, under the Mongols, a dependency of Yun Nan, not of Sze
Ch'wan. (PELLIOT.)
XLVIII., p. 72. The name Karajang. "The first element was the Mongol or
Turki Kara.... Among the inhabitants of this country some are black, and
others are white; these latter are called by the Mongols Chaghan-Jang
('White Jang'). Jang has not been explained; but probably it may have been
a Tibetan term adopted by the Mongols, and the colours may have applied to
their clothing."
Dr. Berthold Laufer, of Chicago, has a note on the subject in the Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Soc., Oct., 1915, pp. 781-4: "M. Pelliot (Bul.
Ecole franc. Ext. Orient., IV., 1904, p. 159) proposed to regard the
unexplained name Jang as the Mongol transcription of Ts'uan, the
ancient Chinese designation of the Lo-lo, taken from the family name of
one of the chiefs of the latter; he gave his opinion, however, merely as
an hypothesis which should await confirmation. I now believe that Yule was
correct in his conception, and that, in accordance with his suggestion,
Jang indeed represents the phonetically exact transcription of a Tibetan
proper name.
