Hsinchiang

See also: Hsin-chiang

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新疆 (Hsin¹-chiang¹).

Proper noun

Hsinchiang

  1. Alternative form of Xinjiang
    • 1994, Pu Ning, Red in Tooth and Claw, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, LCCN 93-12025, OCLC 150504341, page 60:
      Some years later I learned that our place was not the most secretly blockaded area. Somewhere in the Pamirs, in the most western part of Hsinchiang Province, was a region even more forbidden. No one in China, except perhaps some “leaders” of the Communist regime and a few secret agents in the Department of Common Security knew where the place was.
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