Tumushuke

Tu·mu·shu·ke
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proper noun

Synonym of Tumxuk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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proper noun
  1. Synonym of Tumxuk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
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    The Chinese appropriation of "other" types of architecture results from all kinds of negotiation. Professor Ning Qiang recently showed me photographs of the city hotel of Tumushuke (Tumxuk), a town just east of Kashgar in China's westernmost, Islamic province, built in an eighteenth-century northern European style found anywhere....

    2013, Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page viii

    In some of the videos, Han migrants say that any single person below the age of 35 who moves to the sub-prefecture-level cities of Aral (in Chinese, Ala'er) in Aksu (Akesu) prefecture or Tumshuk (Tumushuke) in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture will be provided with a house and a job, while a family of three will receive a two-bedroom home, free utilities for a year, and 40 mu (6.5 acres) of land, tax-free.

    2020 April 13, Gulchehre Hoja, Joshua Lipes, “Subsidies For Han Settlers ‘Engineering Demographics’ in Uyghur-Majority Southern Xinjiang”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2020

    Synonyms: Tumxuk

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proper nounSynonym of Tumxuk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin圖木舒克 /图木舒克
  2. EnglishTumushuke

From Mandarin 圖木舒克 /图木舒克 (Túmùshūkè).

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Tumushuke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tumushuke

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