Dihua

English Alternative forms en Tihua Ti-hua Wade-Giles en Tihwa Postal Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn - 迪化. Pronunciation dē′hwä′Urumchi 1990 1 en Di hua en Proper noun en Ürümqi. en https://archive.org/details/clawsofdragonkan00byro 1992 The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng—the Evil Genius Behind Mao—and His Legacy of Terror in People's China John Bryon; Robert Pack Simon & Schuster 130 The first stop they made in China was at the garrison city of Dihua, the Chinese Turkestan capital, where Wang Ming and Hang called on the local warlord, Sheng Shicai. en https://archive.org/details/bitterrevolution00mitt_0/mode/2up 2004 A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World Rana Mitter Oxford University Press 180 Sheng Shicai, the governor of the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the population of which was largely ethnic Uighur rather than Chinese, invited Du to take up the chancellorship of the Xinjiang Academy, the higher education institution for the province located in the city of Dihua (now known as Urumqi). en https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dYlZDwAAQBAJ 2018 Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands Judd C. Kinzley w:University of Chicago Press 66–67 The fact is that there were goldfields in the Tianshan Mountain range located far closer to the provincial capital of Dihua and Xinjiang's provincial transport network. Similarly, earlier reports and even a few smaller-scale Russian surveys identified several oilfields located within 10 kilometers of Dihua, a major market for petroleum products, the center of government, and the primary hub on the provincial transport network. Translations former name of Ürümqi Chinese: Cantonese: yue 迪化 dik6 faa3 Mandarin: cmn 迪化 Díhuà References