Kashi

alternative K'a-shih

1. Synonym of Kashgar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

   In the dusty bazaar streets of Kashi, also known as Kashgar, Uighur hatred of Chinese authorities runs deep. Many here believe that more than 100 died fighting Chinese troops last spring in the nearby town of Baren.

   1990, David Holley, “COLUMN ONE : An Islamic Challenge to China : Officials fear the spread of fundamentalism in the westernmost region. They toughen controls on religious life and suppress secessionist activities.”, in Los Angeles Times

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   In September 1986, in Duolu Township, which is in Hetan^([sic]) Prefecture's Luopu County in Southern Xinjiang, people began to contract the communicable non-Type A-non-Type B enteric hepatitis. The disease spread to some of the rural areas in Hetan^([sic]), Kashi, and Kizilsu.

   1988 April 7 [1988 March 30], “Spread of Non-Type A-Non-Type B Hepatitis in Southern Xinjiang Now Under Control”, in Daily Report: China, number 67, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumqi/Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 54, column 2

   W. L. Abbott visited the northern Tarim Basin in the autumn of 1893 (Richmond 1895) and F. Ludlow collected in the northern basin between Kashi (Kashgar) and Jam near Aksu between 17 November 1929 and 13 April 1930, and again from 15 to 29 September 1930, and also documented the observations and collections of G. Sherriff (Ludlow and Kinnear 1933-1934).

   1992, Richard Grimmett, Helen Taylor, “Recent observations from Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, 16 June to 5 July 1988”, in Forktail, volume 7, page 139

   An official from neighboring Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture’s Poskam (Zepu) county, who also asked to remain unnamed, told RFA that authorities have been instructed to “make sure that everything is safe” while patrolling the streets of the county, and that they had been provided with notebooks including a list of “the names and pictures of individuals on record” to be detained.

   2018 January 8, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur Detentions Continue in Xinjiang, Despite Pledge to End With Party Congress”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2018

   Synonyms: Kashgar, K'o-shih

1. Synonym of Varanasi.

   In the mind of India, Varanasi or Kashi is an ancient space suspended in an unbroken continuum, not a project under construction.

   2024 April 30, “Kashi: A Date With The Present”, in The New Indian Express, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024

   Synonyms: Varanasi