Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Uqturpan.
She was then detained by police sent from her hometown to bring her back to Xinjiang, but she escaped, was captured again, and was finally sent to Uchturpan, where she was jailed for 39 days.
2014, 'It's not OK.', page https://books.google.com/books?id=XPJEBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT262 more examples
After an uprising broke out in Kucha in 1864 and rebel forces advanced westward in the direction of Aksu and Kashgar, Molla Musa became commander of a rebel troop composed of his students, peasants, and craftsmen. He later became a senior official in the Üchturpan area and also served in Yaqup Beg’s administration.
[2015, Ondrej Klimes, Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c.1900-1949, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39A local judgement issued in Uchturpan County (95 percent indigenous) in 2018 ordered a 20 percent reduction in 57-year-old widow Tunisahan Rahman’s pension after she failed to pay a^([sic – meaning an]) 11,513 RMB (US$1,781) fine for having an “illegal” third child back in 1992, due to what the judgement admitted was a “serious illness” that led to her retirement in 2009 (see Box 1).
2021 May, Nathan Ruser, James Leibold, Family de-planning: The coercive campaign to drive down indigenous birth-rates in Xinjiang (Policy Brief), Australian Strategic Policy Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 07
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