# Garzê
## English
### Alternative forms

* Garze

### Etymology

From Tibetan དཀར་མཛེས (dkar mdzes).

### Proper noun

Garzê
* An autonomous prefecture of Sichuan, China.
** 1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 82:Recently, clues of mélanges have been found in the Garzê area.
** 1992, Robert Strauss, “Kham & the Sichuan Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet)‎, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155:The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County.
** 2020, Xiaoyuan Liu, To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959‎, →ISBN, →OCLC:Regardless, Beijing was presented with a piece of material evidence that new troubles were fermenting in Tibet. At the time, a Buddhist scripture allegedly emerged from a Garzê monastery, predicting ominously: "In the Year of Pig (1959) the world will become one of the beasts, and religion will decline. In the Year of Rat (1960) the Heaven will speak, and Bodhisattvas will come from all directions."
** [2020 June 15, Choekyi Lhamo, “Systemic discrimination for Tibetans involved in “separatist activities””, in Phayul.com‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2020‎:Hiring practices in Tibet revealed state-sponsored discrimination against Tibetans as an official announcement on May 25 in Lithang barred individuals who have participated in “separatist activities” and those whose family members have “exited the country illegally”, reported rights group, International Campaign for Tibet (ICT). In one previous instance, the Chinese government issued the same criteria for recruiting police personnel by Kardze Prefecture government in 2017. […] In an announcement on May 2 for police recruitment in Dabpa County People’s Court in Kardze Prefecture, it said that “those who have received or are receiving subsidies from illegal overseas fund organizations” are disqualified in addition to the aforementioned clauses in the case of Lithang.]
** [2022 October 11, Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, “One Nation Under Xi: How China’s Leader Is Remaking Its Identity”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 11, 2022, Asia Pacific‎:Thousands of officials in Ganzi, a Tibetan region of Sichuan Province, have been paired with families to collect information and give out gifts of rice, cooking oil and beatific portraits of Mr. Xi — all to hammer home his message of an encompassing Chinese identity, from Xinjiang in the west to the contested island of Taiwan in the east. “In the future I’ll be a member of your family, too,” Shen Yang, the Communist Party secretary of Ganzi, called Kardze in Tibetan, told one household, according to a local newspaper. […] A decade ago, Ganzi was a center of protests by Tibetans who set fire to themselves, sometimes fatally, to denounce Chinese rule. The new campaign appears intended to eradicate any remnants of potential resistance.]
* A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
** [2009 February 21, Edward Wong, “China: 4 Jailed for Tibet Protests”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022, Asia‎:Four Tibetans in Sichuan Province have been sentenced to prison for taking part in protests last spring, according to a Tibetan advocacy group. Two are nuns from the Pangri Na convent in Garze County: Soe Lhatson, 35, sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Bhumo, 36, sentenced to 9 years, said the group, Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy.]
** [2022 February 16, Dake Kang, Sam McNeil, “This time, Tibet stands silent as Olympics return to China”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 16 February 2022‎:“No foreigners are allowed in,” said Jampa, the deputy head of Garze county’s foreign affairs office, before ordering the journalist taken by car to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, a 10-hour drive away, where he was released. […] As word of the bloodshed spread, demonstrations erupted across the Tibetan plateau. One day, they came to Drago county, which borders Garze on the plateau’s eastern reaches in Sichuan. […] Kesang Lamdark, a Tibetan artist living in Switzerland and the son of a renowned monk from Garze, said the dream of a free Tibet crashes against the reality of the Chinese police state. […] Jampa of the Garze county foreign affairs office said he had not heard of the demolitions, and denied any restrictions on faith. Religious freedoms are protected by the Chinese constitution, he said, “like in America.”]

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Garzê”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1325, column 1

### Anagrams

* Zager, gazer, graze