Payzawat

English Alternative forms en Fais-abad, en Faiz Abad, en Faizabad, en Faizābād, en Fayzabad, en Payziwat, en Päyziwat, en Peizawat, en Peyziwat, en Peyzawat Etymology From en ug پەيزاۋات. Proper noun en county prefecture/Kashgar autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en 0021-597X 185435403 https://archive.org/stream/TheJerusalemPost1988IsraelEnglish/May%2024%201988%2C%20The%20Jerusalem%20Post%2C%20%2316834%2C%20Israel%20%28en%29 Racial tensions simmer on China's ancient Silk Road w:Jerusalem Post Internet Archive Andrew Roche 24 May 1988 56 16834 6 Local government officials confirmed for the first time this month that an organized uprising against Chinese rule took place as late as the early 1980s.Moslem peasants in Payzawat, 100 kilometres east of Kashgar, raided a military armoury and attacked Han Chinese with the stolen weapons. Units of the People's Liberation Army crushed the rebellion, with many deaths, local people from the Moslem Uighur ethnic group said.Kashgar's vice-mayor Mohamed Emin, a Uighur but a non-Moslem Communist Party member, said a group "bent on destroying ethnic unity" had been responsible.Payzawat - called Jiashi County by Peking - is closed to foreigners although overseas tour groups now regularly visit Kashgar. Local sources said the rebellion followed riots in Kashgar in 1981 that exploded when a Chinese shopkeeper shot dead a Uighur peasant who had parked a donkey-cart load of manure outside his premises. en 1994 Pierre-Antoine Donnet Tica Broch https://archive.org/details/tibetsurvivalinq0000donn/ Tibet: Survival in Question Zed Books Ltd 1856491293 1158758486 134 https://archive.org/details/tibetsurvivalinq0000donn/page/134/ In the early 1980s, the local people rose up in armed rebellion against the Chinese presence in the regional centre of Payzawat. The Chinese army was called in to put down the uprising and the death toll was high. en 2003 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/99597-20030225.html DEATH TOLL RISING FAST IN XINJIANG QUAKE w:Radio Free Asia According to official Chinese media, Payzawat (Jiashi) has a population of at least 300,000, while Maralbeshi (Bachu) has a population of 260,000. Both counties are 90 percent Uyghur. https://web.archive.org/web/20251009225409/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/99597-20030225.html 9 October 2025 en 2014 Michael Dillon Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century https://archive.org/details/routledge-studies-in-the-modern-history-of-asia-michael-dillon-xinjiang-and-the-/ w:Routledge 978-0-415-58443-2 2014004465 911924891 28747412M 32 https://archive.org/details/routledge-studies-in-the-modern-history-of-asia-michael-dillon-xinjiang-and-the-/page/32/ Emin travelled from Khotan to Payzawat and agreed to combine his forces with those of Temur to launch an attack on Kashgar. en 2016 http://www.womenofchina.cn/html/news/action/16121250-1.htm Multiple Efforts Introduced to Help Ethnic Women in Start-ups and Employment Wang Jiangpin Hewater Liu w:All-China Women's Federation 21 March 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200321110225/http://www.womenofchina.cn/html/news/action/16121250-1.htm 21 March 2020 The women's federation in Payzawat County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, along with other government bodies there, has undertaken multiple means to help underprivileged women from ethnic minorities start up their own businesses or find employment in their hometowns in recent years. en 2020-01-18 5.4-magnitude earthquake hits Xinjiang: CENC yan https://web.archive.org/web/20200321050944/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/18/c_138714097.htm 21 March 2020 w:Xinhua News Agency A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Payzawat County of Kashgar Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 00:05 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). en Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Jiashi, en Kiashi, en Chia-shih, en Ch'ieh-shih Translations county Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 伽師 Jiāshī Japanese: ja Korean: ko Manchu: mnc ᡦᠠᡳᡯᡠ᠇ᠠᠪᠠᡨ Uyghur: ug پەيزاۋات Further reading en 1998 Jiashi Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1447 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1447/ 2 Sometimes Payzawat.