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Sinkiang
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English
Alternative forms
en Singkiang misspelling
Etymology
From the en zh-postal - of Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 新疆, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52
Pronunciation
sĭnʹkyăngʹ shĭnʹjyängʹ shĭnʹjē-ängʹ
Proper noun
en Xinjiang: en Xinjiang Q34800.
en September 22, 1848 zh:徐廣縉<t:Sü Kwángtsin> chapter 3 Official Correspondence relating to the death of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1791unse/ w:The Chinese Repository XVII 9 486 https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1791unse/page/486/ I, the Minister, having received this dispatch have examined and find it contains, that having arrested three culprits Tsáutsz' Láutá, Hwá Kwányuen and Cháng Süchun, they have been sentenced to decapitation, and their heads to be hung up in a cage upon a pole to public view; and six others Cháng Yungyuen, Cháng Láuying, Táng Kingmien, Chau ’Rhkwán, Hiá Shunkih and Hiá Yuhshing, have been sentenced to banishment to Sinkiáng (a district beyond the borders) to be made slaves to the military officers, and the Board of Punishments having confirmed the sentence, after thorough deliberation, memorialized the throne, and have received the imperial ratification thereof. on
en 1944 Owen Lattimore Owen Lattimore Introduction: Sinkiang's Place in the Future of China Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West The John Day Company New York 484742578 16 https://archive.org/details/gatewaytoasiasin00nori/page/16/mode Soviet tanks and planes were also sent into Sinkiang, and even troops, who were called "Altai Volunteers." These "volunteers" appear to have been a mixture of trained Soviet troops with Russians, domiciled in Sinkiang, who years before had fought against or fled from the Soviet Revolution.
en 1948 w:Henry A. Wallace; Andrew Jacob Steiger Soviet Asia Mission https://books.google.com/books?id=oyEaAAAAIAAJ 1246783 6498275M 155 In Sinkiang, in Northwest China, we were on the Chinese side of Asia's inner ethnic frontier. In Europe, the Soviets face west along a 2,000-mile ethnic border.
en 1957 Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy https://archive.org/details/sovietrussiainch009229mbp/ New York Farrar, Straus and Cudahy 57010316 955026629 99 https://archive.org/details/sovietrussiainch009229mbp/page/99/ When Japan occupied Manchuria and followed it up by exerting pressure on Hopei and Chahar, Russia was busily encroaching upon Sinkiang in the Northwest where she infiltrated its local administration and exploited its economic resources. After the Soviet-instigated coup d'état in Sinkiang on April 12, 1933, which put Sheng Shih-tsai at the head of the local administration, Soviet Russia steadily stepped up her military aggression and political domination over the province.
en https://archive.org/details/documentarychron00fulo/ 1966 A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820) Lo-shu Fu w:University of Arizona Press 307 "Earlier we ordered him to inspect the goods of the Andijans who traded at Sinkiang. Since trade at Kiakhta is now suspended, the Mohammedans of Andijan might attempt to make a big profit by smuggling Russian commodities into China for sale. We prohibit this smuggling! As soon as trade at Kiakhta is reopened, we shall again allow them to trade (in Russian goods) as before.
en 1977 September The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall Successfully Completed w:China Pictorial https://archive.org/details/ChinaPictorial/CP1977-09/ Peking China Pictorial 0009-4420 671845184 10 https://archive.org/details/ChinaPictorial/CP1977-09/page/n11/ Warm letters and precious gifts came pouring in to the construction site from all parts of the country. Among the gifts were saw-wort seeds gathered from the Tienshan Mountains by workers in SingkiangSinkiang, chingko barley from emancipated serfs in Tibet, earth from people in quake-stricken Tangshan who were rebuilding their homes, water and sand from the Taiwan Straits from P.L.A. men on the Fukien frontline, colour pebbles from Yuhuatai, Nanking, milky quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, camellias from Tali, Yunnan, azaleas from Kangting, Szechuan, earth from the Chingkang Mountains, Kiangsi, water from Nanniwan, Shensi, etc. They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao. on
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-02-22_22_7/ February 22, 1981 Anti-Red demonstrations Free China Weekly XXII 7 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-02-22_22_7/page/n2/ A similar demonstration was held at Aksu in Sinkiang on Nov. 21, 1980, the report said, adding that the situation in Sinkiang is worsening.
en https://archive.org/details/aviation-history 2008 History of Pakistan Army Aviation 1947-2007 Mohammad Azam; Mushtaq Madni; Mushtaq Cheema The Army Press 978-969-9246-00-5 406 Chinese came to our help in 1987 for the over hauling of some MI-8 helicopters, initially team went to Sinkiang in C-130 aircraft and later some of our technicians also went there and in 1988 the first MI-8 was overhauled.
en https://www.timesnownews.com/columns/article/india-china-lac-latest-news-tension-issue-dispute-agreement/603723 Jun 09, 2020 Smoking mirrors: The illusion of the LAC Iqbal Chand Malhotra w:Times Now That year China imported over US$ 200 billion worth of microprocessors from these two countries. When the US placed an embargo on China denying it these microprocessors, it had no choice but to try and build them through a process of self-reliance. Towards this end, it set up a giant polysilicon factory near Kashgar in Sinkiang. https://web.archive.org/web/20250119194827/https://www.timesnownews.com/columns/article/india-china-lac-latest-news-tension-issue-dispute-agreement/603723 19 January 2025
en https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/tibet-factor-india-china-relations September 19, 2020 The Tibet factor in India-China relations Claude Arpi w:The Sunday Guardian 24 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201002154331/https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/tibet-factor-india-china-relations 2 October 2020 One can trace the first blunder to December 1949 when India kept quiet after Beijing unilaterally closed down the Indian Consulate in Kashgar, Sinkiang (today Xinjiang).
Translations
Xinjiang
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Anagrams
en agiiknns kaingins
Finnish
Alternative forms
Xinjiang
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect fi cmn 新疆, from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Xinjiang Q34800
Declension
internal Xinjiang Sinkiangissa
sg Sinkiang a 0
References
Portuguese
Alternative forms
pt Xinjiang
Proper noun
pt Sinquião: pt Xinjiang Q34800