Sinkiang

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng).

• enPR: sĭnʹkyăngʹ, shĭnʹjyängʹ, shĭnʹjē-ängʹ

Sinkiang

1. Synonym of Xinjiang
   • [1848 September 22, Sü Kwángtsin (徐廣縉), “No. 3”, in Official Correspondence relating to the death of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie‎, volume XVII, number 9, page 486:

     I, the Minister, having received this dispatch have examined and find it contains, that having arrested three culprits Tsáutsz' Láutá, Hwá Kwányuen and Cháng Süchun, they have been sentenced to decapitation, and their heads to be hung up in a cage upon a pole to public view; and six others Cháng Yungyuen, Cháng Láuying, Táng Kingmien, Chau ’Rhkwán, Hiá Shunkih and Hiá Yuhshing, have been sentenced to banishment to Sinkiáng (a district beyond the borders) to be made slaves to the military officers, and the Board of Punishments having confirmed the sentence, after thorough deliberation, memorialized the throne, and have received the imperial ratification thereof.]

   • 1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎, New York: The John Day Company, page 16:

     Soviet tanks and planes were also sent into Sinkiang, and even troops, who were called "Altai Volunteers." These "volunteers" appear to have been a mixture of trained Soviet troops with Russians, domiciled in Sinkiang, who years before had fought against or fled from the Soviet Revolution.

   • 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission‎, OCLC 1246783, OL 6498275M, page 155:

     In Sinkiang, in Northwest China, we were on the Chinese side of Asia's inner ethnic frontier. In Europe, the Soviets face west along a 2,000-mile ethnic border.

   • 1957, Chiang, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, LCCN 57010316, OCLC 955026629, page 99:

     When Japan occupied Manchuria and followed it up by exerting pressure on Hopei and Chahar, Russia was busily encroaching upon Sinkiang in the Northwest where she infiltrated its local administration and exploited its economic resources. After the Soviet-instigated coup d'état in Sinkiang on April 12, 1933, which put Sheng Shih-tsai at the head of the local administration, Soviet Russia steadily stepped up her military aggression and political domination over the province.

   • 1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644-1820)‎, University of Arizona Press, page 307:

     "Earlier we ordered him to inspect the goods of the Andijans who traded at Sinkiang. Since trade at Kiakhta is now suspended, the Mohammedans of Andijan might attempt to make a big profit by smuggling Russian commodities into China for sale. We prohibit this smuggling! As soon as trade at Kiakhta is reopened, we shall again allow them to trade (in Russian goods) as before.

   • 1981 February 22, “Anti-Red demonstrations”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXII, number 7, Taipei, page 3:

     A similar demonstration was held at Aksu in Sinkiang on Nov. 21, 1980, the report said, adding that the situation in Sinkiang is worsening.

   • 2008, Mohammad Azam, Mushtaq Madni, Mushtaq Cheema, History of Pakistan Army Aviation 1947-2007‎, The Army Press, →ISBN, page 406:

     Chinese came to our help in 1987 for the over hauling of some MI-8 helicopters, initially team went to Sinkiang in C-130 aircraft and later some of our technicians also went there and in 1988 the first MI-8 was overhauled.

   • 2020 June 9, Iqbal Chand Malhotra, “Smoking mirrors: The illusion of the LAC”, in Times Now‎:

     That year China imported over US$ 200 billion worth of microprocessors from these two countries. When the US placed an embargo on China denying it these microprocessors, it had no choice but to try and build them through a process of self-reliance. Towards this end, it set up a giant polysilicon factory near Kashgar in Sinkiang.

   • 2020 September 19, Claude Arpi, “The Tibet factor in India-China relations”, in The Sunday Guardian‎:

     One can trace the first blunder to December 1949 when India kept quiet after Beijing unilaterally closed down the Indian Consulate in Kashgar, Sinkiang (today Xinjiang).

• “Sinkiang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Sinkiang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• kaingins

• Xinjiang

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋkiɑŋː/, [ˈs̠iŋkiɑŋː]
• Rhymes: -iŋkiɑŋː
• Syllabification^(key): Sin‧ki‧ang

Sinkiang

1. Xinjiang (an autonomous region of China)

• In Xinjiang = Sinkiangissa

• Xinjiang

Sinkiang

1. Xinjiang (an autonomous region of China)

   Synonym: Sinquião