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Kangding is a city and the location of the seat of Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is also known officially in Tibetan as Dardo also known as Dartsedo. Historically, the urban center was known as Tachienlu or Tatsienlu from the Chinese transliteration of the Tibetan name Dartsedo until it was changed to Lucheng which is the administrative seat of Kangding. Kangding had been historical border between Tibet and China, from Kangding to the west lies Tibetan civilization where as to the east Chinese cultural areas. Kangding has witnessed many conflicts between Tibetan and Chinese polities. Kangding was for many centuries an important trading city where Chinese brick tea was carried by porters from Chengdu and other centres to trade for Tibetan wool. A dispute involving the sovereignty over the city between Tibet and the Qing was resolved when the Manchu forces took the city by storm in the Battle of Dartsedo in 1701.