Kargilik

English Kargilik County Alternative forms en Qaghiliq, en Karghalik Etymology From en ug قاغىلىق. Pronunciation kärgälĭk′Karghalik or Qarghaliq 913 1 en Proper noun en county prefecture/Kashgar autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en 1997 Travelling around Xinjiang: A Land of Enchantment https://archive.org/details/travellingaround0000unse/ Beijing China Science Publishing & Media Science Press 7-03-005951-4 51357994 155 https://archive.org/details/travellingaround0000unse/page/155/ 3 At present, a 1 360-km drifting route by raft from the Yarkant Bridge of Yecheng (Kargilik) to the Daxihaizi reservoir of Wensu County has been opened. en FEBRUARY 23, 2017 Li Fangfang Opportunity in Diversity w:Beijing Review https://web.archive.org/web/20170222141244/http://www.bjreview.com/Nation/201702/t20170217_800087666.html February 22, 2017 While over 90 percent of Kargilik's 500,000-strong population are Uygurs, Manas, regarded as the western gateway to Urumqi, has a Han majority. Memet had met few Han people in Kargilik. In Manas, he made friends with the community easily, despite the fear mongering in the past that the Han were taking over Uygur jobs. "My Han friends ask me to dinner during the Spring Festival," Memet told Beijing Review. en 2019 Alexandra Ma Before-and-after photos show how China is destroying historical sites to monitor and intimidate its Muslim minority w:Business Insider https://web.archive.org/web/20190428120743/https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-show-china-destroys-mosques-to-install-police-state-on-muslims-2019-4 April 28, 2019 Kargilik mosque — all goneSatellite images taken in September 2018 and April 2019 appear to show that a mosque in Kargilik county, southwest Xinjiang, had been demolished completely. The two structures in the red box serve as location markers for the before and after images. en November 24, 2019 Xinjiang’s Architect Of Mass Detention: Zhu Hailun Sasha Chavkin w:International Consortium of Investigative Journalists https://web.archive.org/web/20191124191958/https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/xinjiangs-architect-of-mass-detention-zhu-hailun/ November 24, 2019 Zhu arrived in Xinjiang in 1975 as a “sent-down youth,” part of a Communist Party initiative that sent educated urban youths to live in the countryside to further China’s Maoist revolution. A member of China’s Han ethnic majority, he was 17 when he departed prosperous Jiangsu province on China’s east coast for Kargilik, a remote county amid the deserts and steppes of China’s far northwest. Uighurs, the region’s largest ethnic group, had long chafed under official discrimination and economic marginalization under Beijing. en Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Yecheng, en Yehcheng, en Yeh-ch'eng Translations county Chagatai: chg قرغه‌لیق qarġalıq Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 葉城 Yèchéng, cmn 喀格勒克 Japanese: ja Kazakh: kk Қағылық Korean: ko Manchu: mnc ᡥᠠᡵᡤᠠᠯᡳᡴ Uyghur: ug قاغىلىق References Further reading Kargilik, Karghalik, Yecheng, Yehcheng, Yehch'eng, Yeh-ch'eng, Yeh-cheng en 1998 Yecheng Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 3521 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3521/ 1 Also called Kargilik.