Wusu

alternative Wu-su

1. A city in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   The site of the Grand Mosque in Wusu, Xinjiang, in 2017 and 2019.

   2019 November 3, Fred Hiatt, “In China, every day is Kristallnacht”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2019, Opinions

   3 more examples

   Pending the completion of the Sinkiang railroad, the region is served by a number of major land routes that have been transportation links since ancient times. They are the North Road (north of the Tien Shan) passing from Kansu through Urumchi and Wusu, where it bifurcates into two routes going to the Soviet Union.

   1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 257

   Revolutionary committees at all levels in Wusu County have promoted the ideological revolutionization of the leading bodies by grasping the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung thought by leading members and arming their minds with Chairman Mao's theory of continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat.

   1970 March 25 [1970 March 15], “Wusu Leadership Revolutionization”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 58, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4

   And on Sunday, a Public Security Bureau chief in northwest China was relieved of duty for “allegedly keeping a pair of twin sisters as mistresses,” according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. Qi Fang, the police chief in Wusu, has been accused of renting “a high-end apartment unit for the sisters in downtown Wusu” and charging the rent as an official expense.

   2012 December 10, Mark McDonald, “A World of Corruption”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023, View from Asia

   Synonyms: Usu