Wulumuqi

alternative Wulumuchi · alternative Wu-lu-mu-ch'i

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

   In mid-August, Suyun passed the defence for her thesis. As planned, she would return to Wulumuqi City where her fiancé had been waiting for her for three years.

   2009, Zoë S. Roy, “Balloons”, in Butterfly Tears, Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80

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   In addition to its criticism of Ye Wenfu, "Talk About Problems on the Ideological Front" also criticized a literary alliance preparatory group convener in Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Province. Deng Xiaoping said the following: "There was also the convener of the literary alliance preparatory group in Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, who aired his views freely a few days ago; much of what he said went much farther than some anti-socialist statements made in 1957. Quite a few incidents of this kind have taken place." ("Deng’s Selected Works," page 45).... Deng Xiaoping acknowledged that he "felt very alarmed" at reading information about Ye Wenfu's speech and about the literary alliance convener in Wulumuqi. "Opposition to bourgeois liberalization" was thus launched under these circumstances.

   1983 September 22 [1983 August], Lu Su, “Inner Party Workings Revealed in Deng Xiaoping's Selected Works”, in Cheng Ming (爭鳴 (zhēngmíng)), number 70, Hong Kong: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 73

   In addition, news programs are relayed by microwave to twenty-seven provincial capitals and municipalities except in remote areas like Wulumuqi in Xinjiang and Lhasa in Tibet, where the programs of China Central Television sometimes can be watched through experimental synchronous communications satellites.

   1988, Philip T. Rosen, International Handbook of Broadcasting Systems, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 74–75

   Synonyms: Ürümqi