Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xinjiang.
We took the bus to Liuyuan because it was on the train line between Lanchou and Urumchi, the capital of Hsinchiang province.
2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 932 more examples
In many instances, the military was quite unable to distinguish right away between the Red Guard and Revolutionary organizations led by Maoist activists and those organized by Party officials whom Mao wished to topple, since both sides claimed to be dedicated to Mao’s policy. Furthermore, many military commanders were concurrently local administrators such as those in Tibet and Hsinchiang.
1986, Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai, published 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160Some years later I learned that our place was not the most secretly blockaded area. Somewhere in the Pamirs, in the most western part of Hsinchiang Province, was a region even more forbidden. No one in China, except perhaps some “leaders” of the Communist regime and a few secret agents in the Department of Common Security knew where the place was.
1994, Pu Ning, Red in Tooth and Claw, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60
Origin
- Mandarin新疆
- EnglishHsinchiang
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 新疆 (Hsin¹-chiang¹).
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