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A-k'o-su
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English
thumb|Map including A-K'O-SU (AKSU) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1985) (lower right)
Etymology
From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 阿克蘇 A¹-kʻo⁴-su¹.Aksu River, (Wade-Giles romanization) A-k’o-su Ho, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/345/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesAksu (Aqsu, A-k’o-su, Akesu)
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en Akesu (Aksu)
en July 14, 1934 Sinkiang Chief Predicts Early Suppression of Rebels The China Weekly Review https://archive.org/details/millards-1934.07.14/ 69 7 9189590 257 https://archive.org/details/millards-1934.07.14/page/257/ Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe and well at Akosu. on
en 3 June 1960 6 April 1960 Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus Weekly Report on Communist China https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4461791&seq=429 Washington, D.C. w:Central Intelligence Agency Jen-min Yu-tian 28 213778098 16 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4461791&seq=469 https://books.google.com/books?id=Cu-GAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA16 The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.
en 1966 Lo-shu Fu A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820) https://archive.org/details/documentarychron00fulo/ w:University of Arizona Press 66-18529 53146159 5988265M 307 https://archive.org/details/documentarychron00fulo/page/307/ The Emperor decreed [to the ministers in the grand council]: "According to a memorial from Yü-ch'i,⁴²⁷ after he received Our edict, he ordered a search to discover whether the Mohammedans of Andijan who had returned to A-k'o-su from I-li, had brought Russian goods (furs) with them. What he has done is wrong.
en 22 May 1973 3 May 1973 Sinkiang CYL Members Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 99 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043544009&seq=795 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Northwest Region H 2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043544009&seq=870 The CYL members and young people in Akosu Region, Sinkiang, have actively taken part in the three great revolutionary movements and the movement to criticize revisionism and rectify the style of work. on
en 1976 Chuen-Yan David Lai Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apv.172005 Pacific Viewpoint 17 2 10.1111/apv.172005 0030-8978 1087086469 162 The northern part of the Tarim Basin includes large cotton fields around A-k'o-su (Aksu), Hsin-ho, K'u-ch'e (Kucha) and K'u-erh-le (Korla), where the Tarim river and its tributaries are the main source of water supply. Long-staple cotton has been introduced to the state farms in A-k'o-su and K'u-erh-le, both of which are potential sites for cotton-textile manufacturing.
en 1977 Preston M. Torbert The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796 https://archive.org/details/chingimperialhou0000torb/ w:Harvard University Press 252067570 146 https://archive.org/details/chingimperialhou0000torb/page/146/ In the 1750s Chao Chün-jui engaged in business in various towns in Sinkiang such as Yarkand and Akosu.[...]During these years he opened a shop in Yarkand and began to buy jade, which he entrusted to his employees Yu Chin-pao, Hsu Tzu-chien, and others to transport to Soochow in the lower Yangtze. There they sold the jade and bought silks and tea which could be marketed in Akosu and other towns on the northern rim of the Tarim Basin where Chao maintained commercial contacts. on
en 1987 Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr. The Chin Shu-jen Regime and its Relations with the Soviet Union: 1928 to 1933 Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949 https://archive.org/details/sovietpoliticale00hasi_0/ w:Garland Publishing 0-8240-8055-6 87-8368 906492918 2379822M 62 https://archive.org/details/sovietpoliticale00hasi_0/page/62/ There is general agreement that his military forces were organized into six divisions. They were stationed at the following places: at Ti-hua under the command of Liu Hsi-tsen, at T'a-ch'eng under Chiang Sung-lin, at Ili under Niu Shih, at A-shan under Wei Chen-kuo, at A-k'o-su under Chang Tzu-t'ing, and at Ko-shih-ko-erhK'o-shih-ko-erh (Kashgar) nominally under Tsou-ying, but in reality under Chin's brother, Chin Shu-chih.
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Further reading
A-k'o-su, Akosu, Akesu
en 2008 A-k'o-su Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 51 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/51/ 1 A-k'o-su, CHINA: see AKSU