Xinjiang, the Glossary
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.[1]
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- 1955 establishments in China
- Autonomous regions of China
- Inner Asia
- Iranian languages regions
- States and territories established in 1955
- Turkic autonomous regions in China
- Western China
Abdullah Bughra
Abdullah Bughra ((Kona Yëziq) ئابدۇللا بۇغرا, عبد الله بغرا; p; died 1934) was a Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic.
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Ablet Abdureshit
Ablet Abdureshit (Ablet Abdureshit;; born March 1942) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003.
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Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China
The administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China identify the administrative divisions of China at county level and above.
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Administrative divisions of China
The administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times, due to China's large population and geographical area.
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Afaq Khoja
Afaq Khoja (ئاپاق خوجا), born Hidayat Allah (هدایتالله), also known as Apaq Xoja or more properly Āfāq Khwāja (آفاق خواجه), was a Naqshbandi īshān and political leader with the title of Khwaja in Kashgaria (in present-day Southern Xinjiang, China).
Afaq Khoja Mausoleum
The Afaq Khoja Mausoleum is a mausoleum in Xinjiang, China; it is the holiest Muslim site in the region.
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Afaqi Khoja revolts
In 1759, the Qing dynasty of China defeated the Dzungar Khanate and completed the conquest of Dzungaria.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Aksai Chin
Aksai Chin is a region administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) partly in Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang and partly in Rutog County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and the PRC as well as the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan since 1959.
Aksu City
Aksu is a city in and the seat of Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, lying at the northern edge of the Tarim Basin.
Aksu Prefecture
Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China.
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Akto County
Akto County (also known as Aqtu, Aktu, or Aketao) is a county in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.
Alashankou
Alashankou is a border city in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
Almaty Region
Almaty Region (Almaty oblysy; Almatinskaya oblast), formerly known as Alma-Ata Region until 1993 is a region in Kazakhstan, located in the southeastern part of the country.
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Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains, also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters.
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Altai Republic
The Altai Republic (Altay Respublika; Respublika Altay), also known as Gorno-Altai Republic, and colloquially, and primarily referred to in Russian to distinguish from the neighbouring Altai Krai as the Gornyi Altai (lit), is a republic of Russia located in southern Siberia.
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Altay City
Altay or Aletai is a county-level city in Altay Prefecture within Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in far Northern Xinjiang, China.
Altay Prefecture
Altay Prefecture is located in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
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Altishahr
Altishahr (romanized: Altä-şähär or Alti-şähär), also known as Kashgaria, or Yettishar is a historical name for the Tarim Basin region used in the 18th and 19th centuries.
American University
American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. American University was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who sought to create an institution that would promote public service, internationalism, and pragmatic idealism.
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Amursana
Amursana (Mongolian;; 172321September 1757) was an 18th-century taishi or prince of the Khoit-Oirat tribe that ruled over parts of Dzungaria and Altishahr in present-day northwest China.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author.
An Lushan rebellion
The An Lushan rebellion was a civil war in China that lasted from 755 to 763, at the approximate midpoint of the Tang dynasty (618–907).
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Ancient North Eurasian
In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) is the name given to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the people of the Mal'ta–Buret' culture and populations closely related to them, such as the Upper Paleolithic individuals from Afontova Gora in Siberia.
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Anshun
Anshun is a prefecture-level city located in southwestern Guizhou province, southwest China, near the Huangguoshu Waterfall, the tallest in China.
Antara (news agency)
Antara is an Indonesian news agency organized as a statutory corporation.
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April 2014 Ürümqi attack
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang.
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Aquaculture in China
China, with one-fifth of the world's population, accounts for two-thirds of the world's reported aquaculture production.
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Aral, Xinjiang
AralThe official spelling according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù, 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 中国地图出版社 1997); is a sub-prefecture-level city surrounded by Aksu Prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
Artush
Artush (also transliterated as Artux or Atush) is a county-level city and the capital of Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China.
Asia Sentinel
The Asia Sentinel is an online blog focused on news, business, arts and culture in Asia.
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Asia Society
The Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia.
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) is a U.S. Department of Defense institute that officially opened Sept.
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Aspect (geography)
In physical geography and physical geology, aspect (also known as exposure) is the compass direction or azimuth that a terrain surface faces.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a defence and strategic policy think tank based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, founded by the Australian government, and funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with overseas governments, and defence and technology companies.
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Autonomous county
Autonomous counties and autonomous banners are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China.
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Autonomous prefecture
Autonomous prefectures are one type of autonomous administrative divisions of China, existing at the prefectural level, with either ethnic minorities forming over 50% of the population or being the historic home of significant minorities.
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Autonomous regions of China
The autonomous regions are one of four types of province-level divisions of China.
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Awat County
Awat County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is a county in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
Ayding Lake
Aydingkol (Uyghur: ئايدىڭكۆل, Айдиңкөл, Aydingköl), Aydingkul (Mongol) or Ayding is a lake in the Turpan Depression, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, PR China.
Ögedei Khan
Ögedei Khan (also Ögedei Khagan or Ogodei; – 11 December 1241) was the second ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Ürümqi
Ürümqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China.
Ürümqi County
Ürümqi County is a county of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang.
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Ürümqi People's Broadcasting Station
Ürümqi People's Broadcasting Station (short: UBS) was a radio station broadcasting to Ürümqi and the Xinjiang province area.
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Ürümqi South railway station
Ürümqi South railway station (USY: Үрүмчи Җәнувий Векити) is a railway station of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang, Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürümqi–Jinghe railways.
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Ürümqi–Dzungaria railway
The Ürümqi-Dzungaria railway or Wuzhun railway is a single-track railway line in Xinjiang, China, between Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and the coal fields of the eastern Junggar Basin (Dzungaria).
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Badakhshan Province
Badakhshan Province (Pashto/Dari: بدخشان) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country.
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Baiyang, Xinjiang
Baiyang is a county-level city and a sub-prefectural-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Ban Chao
Ban Chao (32–102 CE), courtesy name Zhongsheng, was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and military general of the Eastern Han dynasty.
Battle of Kashgar (1934)
The Battle of Kashgar was a military confrontation that took place in 1934 during the Xinjiang Wars.
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Bayan-Ölgii Province
Bayan-Ölgii (Баян-Өлгий,; Байн-Өлгий,; باي-ولكە,; "Rich region") is the westernmost of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia.
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Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the southeastern Xinjiang, China.
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Baylor University
Baylor University is a private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beitun, Xinjiang
Beitun is a city in the north of Xinjiang, China.
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Beshbalik
Beshbalik (first) is an ancient Turkic archaeological site, now located in Jimsar County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Bezeklik Caves
The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves (Uyghur: بزقلیق مىڭ ئۆيى) is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan (Loulan) at the north-east of the Taklamakan Desert near the ancient ruins of Gaochang in the Mutou Valley, a gorge in the Flaming Mountains, in the Xinjiang region of western China.
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Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Bole, Xinjiang
Bole, also known by its Mongolian name Bortala, is a county-level city in Xinjiang, China.
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Borax
Borax (also referred to as sodium borate, tincal and tincar) is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated or anhydrous borate of sodium, with the chemical formula (also written as). It is a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water to make a basic solution.
Borders of China
The People's Republic of China (PRC) shares land borders with 14 countries (tied with Russia for the most in the world): North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.
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Borohoro Mountains
The Borohoro Mountains (w; Борохоро жотасы) is one of the major ranges of the Tian Shan mountain system.
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Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the northern Xinjiang, China.
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Bosten Lake
Bosten Lake (Uyghur: باغراش كۆلى / Бағраш Көли / Baghrash Köli / Baƣrax Kɵli, Chagatai: Bostang) is a freshwater lake on the northeastern rim of the Tarim Basin, about east of Yanqi and northeast of Korla, Xinjiang, China in the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Burhan Shahidi
Burhan Shahidi (3 October 1894 – 27 August 1989) was a Chinese Tatar politician who occupied several high-level positions in Xinjiang, in the governments of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China.
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Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) is a committee in the House of Commons of Canada that focuses on Canada's foreign policy and international development.
Capsicum
Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to the Americas, cultivated worldwide for their edible fruit.
Caravanserai
A caravanserai (or caravansary) was a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.
Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States designed to serve the Catholic Church.
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Caucasian race
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute or CACI was founded in 1996 by S. Frederick Starr, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
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Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate, or Chagatai Ulus was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors.
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Changji
Changji is a county-level city situated about west of the regional capital, Ürümqi in Northern Xinjiang, China and has about 390,000 inhabitants.
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture (s; سانجى خۇيزۇ ئاپتونومئوبلاستى) is an autonomous prefecture for Hui people in the middle north of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China.
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Chen Quanguo
Chen Quanguo (born November 1955) is a Chinese retired politician who was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Tibet Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2016 and of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2016 to 2021, making him the only person to serve as the Party Secretary for both autonomous regions.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.
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Chigils
The Chigil (Chihil, Cihil, or Chiyal) were a Turkic tribe known from the 7th century CE as living around Issyk Kul lake area.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
China Daily
China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
China League One
The Chinese Football Association League 1, also known as China League One or Chinese Jia League, is the second level of professional football in China, under the Chinese Super League. Prior to the formation of the Chinese Super League, Jia League was known as Jia B League. The then top two levels of Chinese football league were known as Jia A League and Jia B League respectively.
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China Perspectives
China Perspectives (Perspectives chinoises) is an academic quarterly launched in 1995 by the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and published in Hong Kong.
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China Southern Airlines
China Southern Airlines (branded as China Southern) (中国南方航空) is a major airline in China, headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong.
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China under Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, and later in 2016 was proclaimed the CCP's 4th leadership core, following Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Zemin.
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China Western Development
China Western Development is an economic policy applied in Western China as part of the effort to reduce imbalances in development between China's coastal regions and its interior.
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China–Vietnam relations
Relations between Vietnam and China (p, pinyin: Zhōng-Yuè Guān Xì; Quan hệ Việt–Trung) had been extensive for a couple of millennia, with Northern Vietnam especially under heavy Sinosphere influence during historical times.
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Chinese Basketball Association
The Chinese Basketball Association, often abbreviated as the CBA, is the first-tier professional men's basketball league in China.
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.
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Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary
A Party Committee Secretary is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit.
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Chinese economic reform
The Chinese economic reform or Chinese economic miracle, also known domestically as reform and opening-up, refers to a variety of economic reforms termed "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that began in the late 20th century, after Mao Zedong's death in 1976.
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Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s united front system.
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Chinese postal romanization
Postal romanization was a system of transliterating place names in China developed by postal authorities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Chinese Tartary
Chinese Tartary is an archaic geographical term referring to the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang (also referred to as Chinese Turkestan), and Tibet under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China.
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Chinese Tatars
The Chinese Tatars (Кытай татарлары), or simply Tatars (s), are a Turkic ethnic group in Xinjiang, China.
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Chinese Turkestan
Chinese Turkestan, also spelled Chinese Turkistan, is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole which was under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China.
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Chongqing
Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China. Xinjiang and Chongqing are western China.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christianity in Xinjiang
Christianity is a minority religion in Xinjiang, an autonomous region of China, formerly known as Chinese Turkestan.
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Civil Servant-Family Pair Up
Civil Servant-Family Pair Up, also known as Pair Up and Become Family, is a Chinese government policy that forces designated Uyghur families to be matched with Han Chinese civil servants, with the families forced to host the civil servants in their home.
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Clinic
A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients.
Collective farming
Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise".
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
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Counties of China
Counties (hp) are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in provinces and autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and city districts.
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County-level city
A county-level municipality, county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970:; 1970–1983), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China.
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Crawford School of Public Policy
Crawford School of Public Policy is a research-intensive policy school within the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University which focuses on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Daur people
The Daur people, Dagur, Daghur or Dahur (Dagur:Daure; Khalkha Mongolian: Дагуур,;; Russian: Дауры, Daury) are a Mongolic people originally native to Dauria and now predominantly located in Northeast China (and Siberia, Russia in the past).
Death sentence with reprieve
Death with reprieve (abbr) is a criminal punishment found in chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51 of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China.
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Degree Confluence Project
The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based, all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.
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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.
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Detik.com
Detikcom (stylized as detikcom) is an Indonesian digital media company owned by CT Corp subsidiary Trans Media.
Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
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DeWereldMorgen
DeWereldMorgen is a free Belgian Dutch-language alternative media website, started in March 2010 as a joint initiative of the Belgian Dutch-language globalization website Pala.be and the Belgian section of the Independent Media Center.
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Diamond in the Dunes
Diamond in the Dunes is a feature-length documentary produced by the Documentary Foundation about a Chinese-Muslim baseball team in Xinjiang Province, China.
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Direct-administered municipality
A direct-administered municipality (commonly known as municipality) is a city of China that is directly affiliated with the central government and is not placed under any provinces.
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Districts of China
The term district, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China.
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Dual-use technology
In politics, diplomacy and export control, dual-use items refer to goods, software and technology that can be used for both civilian and military applications.
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Dughlats
The Dughlat clan (lit; Mongolian: Dolood/sevens, Doloo/seven; Middle Mongolian: Doluga, Dolugad; Dulğat) was a Mongol (later Turko-Mongol) clan that served the Chagatai khans as hereditary vassal rulers of several cities in western Tarim Basin, in modern Xinjiang, from the 14th century until the 16th century.
Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)
The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877), also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt (Xiao'erjing: تُجِ خُوِ لُوًا, Тунҗы Хуэй Луан) or Hui (Muslim) Minorities War, was a war fought in 19th-century western China, mostly during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875) of the Qing dynasty.
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Dzungar genocide
The Dzungar genocide was the mass extermination of the Mongol Dzungar people by the Qing dynasty.
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Dzungar Khanate
The Dzungar Khanate, also written as the Zunghar Khanate or Junggar Khanate, was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin. Xinjiang and Dzungar Khanate are Inner Asia.
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Dzungar people
The Dzungar people (also written as Zunghar or Junggar; from the Mongolian words, meaning 'left hand') are the many Mongol Oirat tribes who formed and maintained the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Dzungar–Qing Wars
The Dzungar–Qing Wars (Зүүнгар-Чин улсын дайн) were a decades-long series of conflicts that pitted the Dzungar Khanate against the Qing dynasty and its Mongol vassals.
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Dzungaria
Dzungaria (from the Mongolian words, meaning 'left hand'), also known as Northern Xinjiang or Beijiang, is a geographical subregion in Northwest China that corresponds to the northern half of Xinjiang.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
East Asian people
East Asian people (also East Asians or Northeast Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China.
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East Kazakhstan Region
East Kazakhstan Region (translit; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan.
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East Turkestan
East Turkestan or East Turkistan (شەرقىي تۈركىستان,: Sherqiy Türkistan,: Шәрқий Туркистан), also called Uyghuristan (ئۇيغۇرىستان, Уйғуристан), is a loosely-defined geographical region in the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China, which varies in meaning by context and usage.
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East Turkestan independence movement
The East Turkestan independence movement is a political movement that seeks the independence of East Turkestan, a large and sparsely-populated region in northwest China, as a nation state for the Uyghur people.
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East–West Center
The East–West Center (EWC), or the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States as part of Cold War diplomatic efforts.
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The Eight Banners (in Manchu: jakūn gūsa,, ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ) were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and Qing dynasties of China into which all Manchu households were placed.
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Eight-thousander
The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains recognised by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than in height above sea level, and sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks.
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Ejin–Hami railway
Ejin–Hami railway or Eha railway, is a railway in western China between Ejin Banner in Alxa League of western Inner Mongolia and the city of Hami in the eastern part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Elizabeth Van Wie Davis
Elizabeth Van Wie Davis (born 1958) is an American academic specializing in international affairs.
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Emin Khoja
Emin Khoja, alternatively rendered as Amīn Khoja and Emin Khwaja, was an Uighur leader from Turpan who revolted against the Dzungar Khanate in 1720, while the Dzungars under Tsewang Rabtan were being attacked by the Qing dynasty in the Dzungar–Qing Wars.
Emin Minaret
The Emin Minaret or Emin Tower stands by the Uyghur mosque located in Turfan, Xinjiang, China.
Emin Valley
The Emin Valley is located on the China–Kazakhstan border, in Central Asia.
Emperor Taizong of Tang
Emperor Taizong of Tang (28January 59810July 649), previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649.
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Emperor Taizong's campaign against the Western Regions
In the years following Tang Taizong's subjugation of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, the emperor began to exert his military power toward the oasis city-states of the Tarim Basin (part of the area known in Chinese histories as the Western Regions).
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Emperor Wu of Han
Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87BC), born Liu Che and courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty from 141 to 87 BC. His reign lasted 54 years – a record not broken until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor more than 1,800 years later – and remains the record for ethnic Han emperors.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopædia Iranica
Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
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Endogamy
Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.
Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Erkin Tuniyaz
Erkin Tuniyaz (also spelled Arkin Tuniyaz; born December 1961) is a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity who is the current deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Committee and chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in office since 30 September 2021.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
Ethnic and Racial Studies is a peer-reviewed social science academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on anthropology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race, and sociology.
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Ethnic minorities in China
Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Ethnogenesis
Ethnogenesis is the formation and development of an ethnic group.
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Eurasian Land Bridge
The Eurasian Land Bridge, sometimes called the New Silk Road (Новый шёлковый путь), is the rail transport route for moving freight and passengers overland between Pacific seaports in the Russian Far East and China and seaports in Europe.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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First East Turkestan Republic
The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (TIRET) was a breakaway Islamic republic centered on the city of Kashgar, located in the far west of China's Xinjiang Province.
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Flaming Mountains
The Flaming Mountains or Huoyan Mountains, are barren, eroded, red sandstone hills in the Tian Shan of Xinjiang.
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Floating population
The floating population are people who reside in a given population for a certain amount of time and for various reasons, but are not generally considered part of the official census count.
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Forced assimilation
Forced assimilation is the involuntary cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, during which they are forced by a government to adopt the language, national identity, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, way of life, and often the religion and ideology of an established and generally larger community belonging to a dominant culture.
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Former Liang
The Former Liang (301–376) was a dynastic state, one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, in Chinese history.
Former Qin
Qin, known as the Former Qin and Fu Qin (苻秦) in historiography, was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Fu (Pu) clan of the Di peoples during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
Free-trade zone
A free-trade zone (FTZ) is a class of special economic zone.
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Fukang
Fukang is a county-level city in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.
Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China. Xinjiang and Gansu are Inner Asia and western China.
Gaochang
Gaochang (Old Uyghur: Qocho), also called Khocho, Karakhoja, Qara-hoja, Kara-Khoja or Karahoja (قاراغوجا in Uyghur), was a ruined ancient oasis city on the northern rim of the inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in present-day Sanbu Township, Xinjiang, China.
Gaochang, Turpan
Gaochang or Karahoja (Қарахоҗа), is the only district and the seat of the oasis city of Turpan, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
The General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Genetic history of East Asians
This article summarizes the genetic makeup and population history of East Asian peoples and their connection to genetically related populations such as Southeast Asians and North Asians, as well as Oceanians, and partly, Central Asians, South Asians, and Native Americans.
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Genetic history of Europe
The genetic history of Europe includes information around the formation, ethnogenesis, and other DNA-specific information about populations indigenous, or living in Europe.
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Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia
Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia is the study of the genetics and archaeogenetics of the ethnic groups of South Asia.
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Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
Geographical midpoint of Asia
The location of the geographical centre of Asia (Центр Азии; Азияның Төвү) depends on the definition of the borders of Asia, mainly whether remote islands are included to define the extreme points of Asia, and on the method of calculating the final result.
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Ghulja incident
The Ghulja, Gulja, or Yining incident (事件, Yīníng Shìjiàn), also referred to as the Ghulja Massacre, was the culmination of the Ghulja protests of 1997, a series of demonstrations in the city of Yiningknown as Ghulja in Uyghurin the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.
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Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.
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Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert (Говь) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern Mongolia and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
Golmud–Korla railway
Geku railway is a railway connecting Golmud and Korla, in western China.
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Gorno-Badakhshan
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains.
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Government of China
The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.
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Govi-Altai Province
Govi-Altai (Говь-Алтай / Altai) is an aimag (province) in western Mongolia.
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Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China (literally "ten thousand ''li'' long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guan Zhong
Guan Zhong (c. 720–645 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician.
Guangxu Emperor
The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
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Guanzi (text)
The Guanzi is an ancient Chinese political and philosophical text.
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Guizi
Guizi is a pejorative Chinese slang term referring to foreigners, with a history of xenophobic connotations.
Gurbantünggüt Desert
The Gurbantünggüt Desert (Құрбантұңғыт шөлі قۇربانتۇڭعىت ءشولى; قۇربانتۈڭغۈت قۇملۇقى, Qurbantüngghüt Qumluqi; p) occupies a large part of the Dzungarian Basin in Northern Xinjiang, in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.
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Hami
Hami (c) or Kumul (قۇمۇل) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Xinjiang, China.
Hami melon
The Hami melon is an umbrella term for sweet melon varieties from Xinjiang, China, especially from Hami.
Hami–Lop Nur railway
Hami–Lop Nur railway or Haluo railway, is a railway in the eastern part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China between Hami and Lop Nur.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
Hanafi school
The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Han–Xiongnu War
The Han–Xiongnu War,.
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Heavy industry
Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); or complex or numerous processes.
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Hexi Corridor
The Hexi Corridor (Xiao'erjing: حْسِ ظِوْلاْ), also known as the Gansu Corridor, is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu province of China.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Hotan County
Hotan County (also known as Gosthana, Gaustana, Godana, Godaniya, Khotan, Hetian, Hotien) is a county in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.
Hotan Prefecture
Hotan PrefectureThe official spelling is "Hotan" according to (see also § Etymology) is located in the Tarim Basin region of southwestern Xinjiang, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Union Territory of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan to the west.
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Hotan–Ruoqiang railway
The Hotan–Ruoqiang (Qakilik) railway or Heruo Railway is a 825.5 km long railway line connecting the cities of Hotan and Ruoqiang in southern Xinjiang, China that opened on 16 June 2022 with a design speed of.
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Hubei
Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.
Hui people
The Hui people (回族|p.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Hunan
Hunan is an inland province of China.
Huocheng County
Huocheng County, as the official romanized name, is also transliterated from Uyghur as Korgas County (in Kazakh: قورعاس اۋدانى). It is situated within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and falls under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.
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Huyanghe
Huyanghe is a county-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
Id Kah Mosque
The Id Kah Mosque (translit, ХейтгахМесчити; p; from Persian: عیدگاه, Eidgāh, meaning "Place of Festivities") is a historic mosque and tourist site located in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
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Ili Rebellion
The Ili Rebellion was a separatist uprising by the Turkic peoples of northern Xinjiang (East Turkestan) against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China, from 1944 to 1946.
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Ili River
The Ili River (ئىلى دەرياسى, Или Дәряси,; Ile; Или; 伊犁河,; Йили хә, اِلِ حْ; Или мөрөн) is a river in Northwest China and Southeastern Kazakhstan.
Immunization
Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen).
Incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China
The incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China, known in Chinese historiography as the Peaceful Liberation of Xinjiang, was the takeover of Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the waning days of the Chinese Civil War.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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International Journal of Conflict and Violence
The International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV) is an open access interdisciplinary scientific journal covering conflict and violence research.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
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Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Irtysh
The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.
Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal
The Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal, also known as the Project 635 Canal, is a system of water-transfer canals and reservoirs in the northern part of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in China
Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE.
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Islamabad
Islamabad (اسلام‌آباد|translit.
Islamic extremism
Islamic extremism, Islamist extremism or radical Islam refers a set of extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideology within Islam.
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Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)
In 1937 an Islamic rebellion began in southern Xinjiang.
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Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.
Ismail Amat
Ismail Amat (translit; p; September 1935 – 16 October 2018) was a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity who served as Chairman (Governor) of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, State Councillor, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Ismail Tiliwaldi
Ismail Tiliwaldi (ئىسمائىل تىلىۋالدى, Исма'ил Тиливалди; born November 1944) is a retired Chinese politician of Uyghur heritage.
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Issyk-Kul Region
Issyk-Kul Region (Ysyk-Köl oblusu; Issyk-Kulskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Kyrgyzstan.
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Jade
Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.
Jahangir Khoja
Jahanghir Khoja, Jāhangīr Khwāja or Jihangir Khoja (جهانگير خوجة;; 1788 – 1828), was a member of the influential Afaqi khoja clan, who managed to wrest Kashgaria from the Qing Empire's power for a few years in the 1820s but was eventually defeated and executed.
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Jamestown Foundation
The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative defense policy think tank.
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Jin dynasty (266–420)
The Jin dynasty or Jin Empire, sometimes distinguished as the or the, was an imperial dynasty in China that existed from 266 to 420.
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Jin Shuren
Jin Shuren (c. 1883–1941) was a Chinese Xinjiang clique warlord who served as Governor of Xinjiang between 1928 and 1933.
Jinchuan County
Jinchuan County or Quqên is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China.
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Jinghe County
Jinghe County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Jing County, is a county of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.
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Jinghe–Yining–Khorgos railway
The Jingyihuo railway, short for Jinghe–Yining–Khorgas railway, is the first electrified railway in operation in Xinjiang, China.
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Journal of World History
The Journal of World History is a peer-reviewed academic journal that presents historical analysis from a global point of view, focusing especially on forces that cross the boundaries of cultures and civilizations, including large-scale population movements, economic fluctuations, transfers of technology, the spread of infectious diseases, long-distance trade, and the spread of religious faiths, ideas, and values.
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July 2009 Ürümqi riots
A series of violent riots over several days broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in northwestern China.
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Junggar Basin
The Junggar Basin, also known as the Dzungarian Basin or Zungarian Basin, is one of the largest sedimentary basins in Northwest China.
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Jurchen people
Jurchen (Manchu: Jušen,; 女真, Nǚzhēn) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking people.
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K2
K2, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at.
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Kabansk
Kabansk (Каба́нск, Buryat and Хабаан, Khabaan) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kabansky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.
Kaidu
Kaidu (Middle Mongol:, Qayidu, Modern Mongol: Хайду Haidu,;; c. 1230 – 1301) was a grandson of the Mongol khagan Ögedei (1185–1241) and thus leader of the House of Ögedei and the de facto khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a division of the Mongol Empire.
Kara-Khanid Khanate
The Kara-Khanid Khanate, also known as the Karakhanids, Qarakhanids, Ilek Khanids or the Afrasiabids, was a Karluk Turkic khanate that ruled Central Asia from the 9th to the early 13th century.
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Karakax County
Karakax County, alternatively Moyu County, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qaraqash County, alternately Qaraqash, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is located in the southern edge of the Tarim Basin, it is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.
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Karakoram
The Karakoram is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway (شاہراہ قراقرم), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the ChinaPakistan Friendship Highway, is a national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.
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Karakul (Xinjiang)
The Karakul or Karakuli (translit, Қаракөл; Каракөл; Қарокӯл; Каракуль, lit. "black lake"), is a lake located 196 km southwest of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
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Karamay
Karamay (also spelled Karamai) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
Karamay, Karamay
Karamay District (translit, Қарамай Райони) is a district of Karamay City, Xinjiang, China.
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Karasahr
Karasahr or Karashar (6), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative Yanqi (w), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.
Kargilik Town
Kargilik (قاغىلىق) or Yecheng (s) is a town in Xinjiang, China.
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Karluks
The Karluks (also Qarluqs, Qarluks, Karluqs, 𐰴𐰺𐰞𐰸, Qarluq, Para-Mongol: Harluut, t Géluólù; customary phonetic: Gelu, Khololo, Khorlo, خَلُّخ, Khallokh, قارلوق Qarluq) were a prominent nomadic Turkic tribal confederacy residing in the regions of Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) and the Tarbagatai Mountains west of the Altay Mountains in Central Asia.
Kashgar
Kashgar (قەشقەر) or Kashi (c) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China.
Kashgar Prefecture
Kashgar Prefecture, also known as Kashi Prefecture, is located in southwestern Xinjiang, China, located in the Tarim Basin region (roughly the southern half of Xinjiang).
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Kashgar railway station
Kashgar railway station (喀什站) is the main railway station of Kashgar, Xinjiang and the westernmost railway station in China.
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Kashgar–Hotan railway
The Kashgar–Hotan railway or Kahe railway (abbreviated), is a single-track, non-electrified, railway in Xinjiang, China between Kashgar and Hotan.
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Kazakh language
Kazakh or Qazaq is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs.
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Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs; Kazakh: қазақ, qazaq,, қазақтар, qazaqtar) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe, mainly Kazakhstan, but also parts of northern Uzbekistan and the border regions of Russia, as well as northwestern China (specifically Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture) and western Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii Province).
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
Kazakhstania
Kazakhstania (Qazaqstaniya), the Kazakh terranes, or the Kazakhstan Block, is a geological region in Central Asia which consists of the area roughly centered on Lake Balkhash, north and east of the Aral Sea, south of the Siberian craton and west of the Altai Mountains.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Khanate
A khanate or khaganate is a type of historic polity ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum.
Khanate of Kokand
The Khanate of Kokand (خاننشین خوقند; Khānneshin-e Khoqand, خوقند خانليغى Khoqand Khānliği) was a Central Asian polity in the Fergana Valley centred on the city of Kokand between 1709 and 1876.
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Khitan language
Khitan or Kitan (in large script or in small, Khitai;, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is an extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century).
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Khoja (Turkestan)
Khoja or Khwaja (қожа; кожо; خوجا; خواجه; хӯҷа; xo'ja), a Persian word literally meaning 'master' or ‘lord’, was used in Central Asia as a title of the descendants of the noted Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi teacher, Ahmad Kasani (1461–1542) or others in the Naqshbandi intellectual lineage prior to Baha al-din Naqshband.
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Khorgos
Khorgos (from Хоргос), officially known as KorgasThe official spelling according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù, 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 中国地图出版社 1997); (from Kazakh: قورعاس), is a county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Khovd Province
Khovd (Howd) is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia, located in the west of the country.
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Khunjerab Pass
Khunjerab Pass (قونجىراپ ئېغىزى) is a mountain pass in northern Pakistan that lies at an elevation of 4,693 meters (15,397 feet) above sea level.
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Khunjerab Railway
Khunjerab Railway (خنجراب ریل راستہ), also known as China–Pakistan railway and ML-5, is one of several proposed railway lines in Pakistan, to be operated and maintained by Pakistan Railways.
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Kingdom of Khotan
The Kingdom of Khotan was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China).
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Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture
Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in western Xinjiang, China, bordering Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Xinjiang and Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture are Turkic autonomous regions in China.
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Kokdala
Kokdala or Cocodala is a city in northern Xinjiang, China, bordering Kazakhstan's Almaty Region to the west.
Kompas TV
PT Cipta Megaswara Televisi, operating as Kompas TV (English: Compass TV), is an Indonesian national terrestrial private news television broadcaster.
Korla
Korla,The official spelling according to also known as Kurla, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or Kuerle, is the second largest city by population in Xinjiang, China.
Kucha
Kucha or Kuche (also: Kuçar, Kuchar; كۇچار, Кучар; p, p; translit) was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat River.
Kumtag Desert
The Kumtag Desert ("kum-tag" meaning "sand-mountain" in a number of Turkic languages), is an arid landform in Northwestern China, which was proclaimed as a national park in the year 2002.
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Kumul Rebellion
The Kumul Rebellion was a rebellion of Kumulik Uyghurs from 1931 to 1934 who conspired with Hui Chinese Muslim General Ma Zhongying to overthrow Jin Shuren, governor of Xinjiang.
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Kunlun Mountains
The Kunlun Mountains constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than.
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Kunyu, Xinjiang
Kunyu is a county-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
Kuqa, Xinjiang
Kuqa is a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Kuytun–Beitun railway
The Kuytun–Beitun railway or Kuibei railway is a single-track railway in Xinjiang, China between Kuytun and Beitun.
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Kyrgyz people
The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz, Kirgiz, and Kirghiz; or) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.
Ladakh
Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.
Lake Balkhash
Lake Balkhash (Балқаш көлі, Balqaş kölı,; ozero Balkhash) is a lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, one of the largest lakes in Asia and the 15th largest in the world.
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Land Reform Movement
The Land Reform Movement, also known by the Chinese abbreviation Tǔgǎi (土改), was a mass movement led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War after the Second Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945 and in the early People's Republic of China, which achieved land redistribution to the peasantry.
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Language isolate
A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.
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Lanzhou
Lanzhou is the capital and largest city of Gansu province in northwestern China.
Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway
The Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway, also known as Lanzhou–Xinjiang Passenger Railway or Lanxin Second Railway, is a high-speed railroad in Northwestern China from Lanzhou in Gansu Province to Ürümqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway
The Lanzhou−Xinjiang railway or Lanxin railway, is the longest railway in Northwestern China.
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Later Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)
The Later Liang (386–403) was a dynastic state of China and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history.
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Leader of the Chinese Communist Party
The leader of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the highest-ranking official and head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Leh district
Leh district is one of the two district in union territory of Ladakh, in India.
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.
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Li (unit)
Li (lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, is a traditional Chinese unit of distance.
Lianyungang
Lianyungang is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, China.
Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), officially the Great Liao, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people.
Liaoning
Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.
Light industry
Light industry are industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industries and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consumer goods.
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Lingchi
Lingchi (IPA: lǐŋ.ʈʂʰɨ̌), usually translated "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts", was a form of torture and execution used in China from around the 10th century until the early 20th century.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index
This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan).
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List of administrative divisions of Xinjiang
Xinjiang, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
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List of Chinese administrative divisions by area
This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces (except the claimed Taiwan Province), autonomous regions, special administrative regions, and municipalities, in order of their total land area as reported by the national or provincial-level government.
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List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP
The article lists China's province-level divisions by gross domestic product (GDP).
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List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP per capita
The article is about China's first-level administrative divisions by their gross domestic product per capita in main years.
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List of Chinese administrative divisions by population
This is a list of Chinese administrative divisions in order of their total resident populations.
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List of designated terrorist groups
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist.
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List of ethnic groups in China
The Han people are the largest ethnic group in mainland China.
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List of first-level administrative divisions by area
This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.
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Long Shujin
Long Shujin (November 1910 – April 16, 2003) was a People's Liberation Army major general and a People's Republic of China politician.
Lop Nur
Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Loulan Kingdom
Loulan (樓蘭|p.
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M. E. Sharpe
M.
Ma Xingrui
Ma Xingrui (born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer who is the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang.
Madhhab
A madhhab (way to act,, pl. label) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence.
Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
Manas Lake
The Manas Lake is a salt lake in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
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Manchuria
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria. Xinjiang and Manchuria are Inner Asia.
Manichaeism
Manichaeism (in New Persian آیینِ مانی) is a former major world religion,R.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Mao Zemin
Mao Zemin (April 3, 1896 – September 27, 1943), also using Zhou Bin as his alias, was born in Xiangtan, Hunan province.
Maralbexi County
Maralbexi County (Maralbeshi, Maralbishi, transliterated from), Bachu County, and) the former long Chinese name as well, is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The county is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of, and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk.
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May 2014 Ürümqi attack
On the morning of 22 May 2014, two sport utility vehicles (SUVs) carrying five assailants were driven into a busy street market in Ürümqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Miao people
The Miao are a group of linguistically related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia, who are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 official ethnic groups.
Middle East Institute
The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural centre in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946.
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Migration to Xinjiang
Migration to Xinjiang is both an ongoing and historical movement of people, often sponsored by various states who controlled the region, including the Han dynasty, Tang dynasty, Uyghur Khaganate, Yuan dynasty, Qing dynasty, Republic of China and People's Republic of China.
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Millet
Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Moghulistan
Moghulistan (from مغولستان,; Моголистан), also called the Moghul Khanate or the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, was a Mongol breakaway khanate of the Chagatai Khanate and a historical geographic area north of the Tengri Tagh mountain range, on the border of Central Asia and East Asia.
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
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Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. Xinjiang and Mongolia are Inner Asia.
Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
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Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Mongols in China
Mongols in China, also known as Chinese Mongolians, are ethnic Mongols who live in China.
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Monguor people
The Monguor (Monguor language: Mongghul), the Tu people, the White Mongol or the Tsagaan Mongol, are Mongolic people and one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China.
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Mortality rate
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
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Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Muztagh Ata
Muztagh Ata or Muztagata (Музтағ Ата, literally "ice-mountain-father";; formerly known as Mount Tagharma or Taghalma and Wi-tagh) is the second highest (7546 metres) of the mountains which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau in China (not the second highest of the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau).
Naqshbandi
The Naqshbandi order (translit) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Baha al-Din Naqshband.
Naryn Region
Naryn Region (Naryn oblusu; Narynskaya oblast) is the largest region (oblus) of Kyrgyzstan.
Nasreddin
Nasreddin or Nasreddin Hodja (other variants include: Mullah Nasreddin Hodja, Nasruddin Hodja, Mullah Nasruddin, Mullah Nasriddin, Khoja Nasriddin) (1208–1285) is a character in the folklore of the Muslim world from the Balkans to China, and a hero of humorous short stories and satirical anecdotes.
National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics is a deputy-ministerial level agency directly under the State Council of China.
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National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
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National People's Congress
The National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest organ of state power of the People's Republic of China.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
New 36th Division
The New 36th Division was a cavalry division in the National Revolutionary Army.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ningxia
Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China. Xinjiang and Ningxia are autonomous regions of China and western China.
Nizari Isma'ilism
Nizari Isma'ilism (translit) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers.
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Nomadic empire
Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, were the empires erected by the bow-wielding, horse-riding, nomadic people in the Eurasian Steppe, from classical antiquity (Scythia) to the early modern era (Dzungars). Xinjiang and nomadic empire are Inner Asia.
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North China Craton
The North China Craton is a continental crustal block with one of Earth's most complete and complex records of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic processes.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang (KMT) against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926.
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Northern Liang
The Northern Liang (397–439) was a dynastic state of China and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history.
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Northern Silk Road
The Northern Silk Road is a historic inland trade route in Northwest China and Central Asia (historically known as the Western Regions), originating in the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an (modern day Xi'an), westwards through the Hexi Corridor (in what is the modern Gansu province) into the Tarim Basin, going around north of the Taklamakan Desert along the two sides of the Tianshan Mountains, and then past the Pamir Mountains to reach the ancient kingdoms of Bactria, Sogdia, Kushan, Parthia and eventually the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
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Northern Wei
Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.
Northern Xinjiang railway
The Northern Xinjiang railway or Beijiang railway is a railway in Xinjiang, China, between Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and Alashankou on the border with Kazakhstan.
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Northwestern China
Northwestern China is a geographical region of China which includes three provinces (Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai) and two autonomous regions (Xinjiang and Ningxia). Xinjiang and Northwestern China are western China.
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Nur Ahmadjan Bughra
Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra ((Kona Yëziq) نۇر ئەخمەتجان بۇغرا, نور احمد جان بغرا; p; died April 16, 1934) was an Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic.
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Nur Bekri
Nur Bekri (نۇر بەكرى; 努尔·白克力; born 9 August 1961) is a Chinese former politician of Uyghur ethnicity, best known for his term as Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region between 2008 and 2014.
Nurlan Abilmazhinuly
Nūrlan Äbılmäjınūly (نۇرلان ٴابىلماجىن ۇلى / Нұрлан Әбілмәжінұлы; born December 1962), also spelled Nurlan Abilmazhinuly or Nurlan Abelmanjen, is a Chinese politician of Kazakh origin, currently serving as chairman of the Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
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Oirats
Oirats (Ойрад, Oirad) or Oirds (Ойрд, Oird; Өөрд; 瓦剌, Wǎlà/Wǎlā), also formerly Eluts and Eleuths (厄魯特, Èlǔtè), are the westernmost group of the Mongols whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of Siberia, Xinjiang and western Mongolia.
Ordos Plateau
The Ordos Plateau, also known as the Ordos Basin or simply the Ordos, is a highland sedimentary basin in parts of most Northern China with an elevation of, and consisting mostly of land enclosed by the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River.
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Osh Region
Osh Region (translit; Oshskaya oblast) is a region (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer is one of the oldest and widely read English-language daily newspapers of Pakistan.
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Paleo-Siberian languages
The Paleo-Siberian languages are several language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia.
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Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
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Pamiris
The Pamiris are an Eastern Iranian ethnic group, native to Central Asia, living primarily in Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan), Afghanistan (Badakhshan), Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan) and China (Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County).
Paramount leader
Paramount leader is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Peled (fish)
The peled (Coregonus peled), also called the northern whitefish, is a species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae.
People's Daily
The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.
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People's Square (Ürümqi)
People's Square of Ürümqi (t; ucy) is a large public square located around the major intersections of Central Business District of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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People's war
People's war or protracted people's war is a Maoist military strategy.
Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
Permafrost
Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years.
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide.
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Petrochemical
Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Pishan County
Pishan County (s) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guma County (گۇما ناھىيىسى; s), is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Pole of inaccessibility
In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature, starting from a given boundary, relative to a given criterion.
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Politico Europe
Politico Europe (stylized as POLITICO Europe) is the European edition of the American news organization Politico reporting on political affairs of the European Union.
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Politics of China
In China, politics functions within a communist state framework based on the system of people's congress under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with the National People's Congress (NPC) functioning as the highest organ of state power and only branch of government per the principle of unified power.
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Polycrystalline silicon
Polycrystalline silicon, or multicrystalline silicon, also called polysilicon, poly-Si, or mc-Si, is a high purity, polycrystalline form of silicon, used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industry.
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Potash
Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.
Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.
Prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
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Prefecture-level divisions of China
China is officially divided into 339 prefecture-level divisions, which rank below provinces and above counties as the second-level administrative division in the country.
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Prefectures of China
Prefectures are one of four types of prefecture-level divisions in China, the second-level administrative division in the country.
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Premier of the Republic of China
The premier of the Republic of China, officially the president of the Executive Yuan (Chinese: 行政院院長), is the head of the government of the Republic of China of Taiwan and leader of the Executive Yuan.
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President of the Republic of China
The president of the Republic of China, also referred to as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as well as the commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Armed Forces.
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Protectorate General to Pacify the West
The Protectorate General to Pacify the West (Anxi Grand Protectorate), initially the Protectorate to Pacify the West (Anxi Protectorate), was a protectorate (640 –) established by the Chinese Tang dynasty in 640 to control the Tarim Basin.
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Protectorate of the Western Regions
The Protectorate of the Western Regions was an imperial administration (a protectorate) situated in the Western Regions administered by Han dynasty China and its successors on and off from 59 or 60 BCE until the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period in 439 AD.
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Proto-Indo-Europeans
The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Provinces of China
Provinces (p) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Public library
A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes.
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Qapqal News
The Qapqal News (Xibe:, Möllendorff) is the world's only newspaper in the Xibe language, a Tungusic language spoken in Northwest China.
Qara Khitai
The Qara Khitai, or Kara Khitai, also known as the Western Liao, officially the Great Liao, was a dynastic regime based in Central Asia ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people.
Qäwrighul culture
The Qäwrighul culture (after the Tarim Basin cemetery of Qäwrighul, also named 古墓溝 Gumugou in Chinese) is a late Bronze Age culture which flourished along the Kongque River in Xinjiang from ca.
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Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (Hmu language: Qeef Dongb Naif Dol Hmub Dol Gud Zid Zid Zeb; Kam language: Qeens Donc Nanc Nyenc Miiul Nyenc Gaeml Zil Zil Zous), also known as Southeast Qian Autonomous Prefecture of Miao and Dong and shortened as S.E. Qian Prefecture (Qeens Donc Nanc Zous), is an autonomous prefecture in the southeast of Guizhou province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hunan to the east and Guangxi to the south.
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Qiang people
The Qiang people (Qiangic: Rrmea) are an ethnic group in China.
Qiemo County
Qiemo County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County (Uyghur: چەرچەن ناھىيىسى), is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south.
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
Qing reconquest of Xinjiang
The Qing reconquest of Xinjiang was the event when the Qing dynasty reconquered Xinjiang after the Dungan Revolt in the late 19th century.
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Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest. Xinjiang and Qinghai are Inner Asia and western China.
Qira County
Qira County (Uyghur: چىرا ناھىيىسى), alternatively Chira or Cele (from Mandarin Chinese), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
Qocho
Qocho or Kara-Khoja, also known as Idiqut, ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune") was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences.
Radio Free Asia
Radio Free Asia (RFA) is an American government-funded non-profit corporation operating a news service that broadcasts radio programs and publishes online news, information, and commentary for its audiences in Asia.
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Raisin
A raisin is a dried grape.
Renmin Road Subdistrict, Wujiaqu
Renmin Road Subdistrict is a subdistrict situated in Dawukou District, Wujiaqu, Xinjiang, China.
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Renminbi
The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.
Republic of China (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas
The Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas was an uprising against the Qing dynasty of China, which broke out in 1757 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
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Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Robert Montgomery Martin
Robert Montgomery Martin (c. 1801 – 6 September 1868) was an Anglo-Irish author and civil servant.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Russians in China
Ethnic Russians (Pусские в Китае) or Russian Chinese, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized in China.
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Saifuddin Azizi
Saifuddin Azizi (officially transcribed as Seypidin Azizi; 12 March 1915 – 24 November 2003) was a Chinese politician who occupied several top positions in the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Saka
The Saka were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who historically inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin.
Salar people
The Salar people are a Turkic ethnic minority in China who speak Salar, a Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch.
San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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SASM/GNC romanization
The former State Administration of Surveying and Mapping, Geographical Names Committee and former Script Reform Committee of the People's Republic of China have adopted several romanizations for Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan and Uyghur, officially known as pinyin, Regulation of Phonetic Transcription in Hanyu Pinyin Letters of Place Names in Minority Nationality Languages and Orthography of Chinese Personal Name in Hanyu Pinyin Letters.
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Satellite imagery
Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
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Sattar Sawut
Sattar Sawut (ساتتار ساۋۇت;; born November 1948) is a Chinese former politician of Uyghur ethnicity.
Sayram Lake
Sayram Lake, also known as Santai Haizi (三台海子) or historically the "Clean Sea" (净海), is an endorheic freshwater lake in the northern Tianshan Mountains at Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, less than from the border with Kazakhstan.
Sayyid
Sayyid (سيد;; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: سادة; feminine: سيدة) is an honorific title of Hasanids and Husaynids Muslims, recognized as descendants of the Arab companion Ali through his sons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali.
Second East Turkestan Republic
The East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was a short-lived satellite state of the Soviet Union in northern Xinjiang (East Turkestan), which existed from 1944 to 1946.
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Self-segregation
Self-segregation or auto-segregation is the separation of a religious, ethnic, or racial group from other groups in a country by the group itself naturally.
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Separatism
Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group.
September 2009 Xinjiang unrest
In September 2009, Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China, experienced a period of unrest in the aftermath of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots.
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Sericulture
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk.
Serindia
The term Serindia combines Seres (China) and India to refer to the part of Asia also known as Xinjiang, Chinese Turkestan or High Asia.
Settler colonialism
Settler colonialism occurs when colonizers and settlers invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China. Xinjiang and Shaanxi are western China.
Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.
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Shanxi
Shanxi is an inland province of China and is part of the North China region.
Shawan, Xinjiang
Shawan, also transliterated from Chinese to Uyghur as Savan, is a county-level city situated in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of the Tacheng Prefecture.
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Sheng Shicai
Sheng Shicai (3 December 189513 July 1970) was a Chinese warlord who ruled Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shihezi
Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, China.
Shirzat Bawudun
Shirzat Bawudun (شىرزات باۋۇدۇن;; born June 1966) is a Uyghur politician and the former head of the department of justice in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.
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Shohrat Zakir
Shohrat Zakir (شۆھرەت زاكىر,; born August 1953) is a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity who served as the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Committee from 2014 to 2021.
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Shuanghe
Shuanghe is a county-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
Shule County
Shule County, also known as Yengisheher County or Yengixahar County, is a county of Kashgar Prefecture, in Xinjiang, China.
Shule Kingdom
The Shule Kingdom was an ancient oasis kingdom of the Taklamakan Desert that was on the Northern Silk Road, in the historical Western Regions of what is now Xinjiang in Northwest China.
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Shuttle trade
According to the OECD defininion, shuttle trade is "the activity in which individual entrepreneurs buy goods abroad and import them for resale in street markets or small shops.
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Sibe people
The Sibe or Xibo are a Tungusic-speaking East Asian ethnic group living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin and Shenyang in Liaoning.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Sino-Indian border dispute
The Sino–Indian border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute over the sovereignty of two relatively large, and several smaller, separated pieces of territory between China and India.
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Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
Sodium
Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.
Solar panel
A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells.
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.
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Southern Xinjiang railway
The Southern Xinjiang railway or Nanjiang railway, is a railway between Turpan and Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
The Soviet invasion of Xinjiang was a military campaign of the Soviet Union in the Chinese northwestern region of Xinjiang in 1934.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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State Council of the People's Republic of China
The State Council of the People's Republic of China, also known as the Central People's Government, is the chief administrative authority and the national cabinet of China.
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State media are typically understood as media outlets that are owned, operated, or significantly influenced by the government.
Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism
In May 2014, the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched the "Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism" in the far west province of Xinjiang.
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Sub-provincial division
A sub-provincial division in China is a prefecture-level city governed by a province promoted by half-a-level.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Tacheng
TachengThe official spelling according to, also known as Tarbagatay, Chuguchak or Qoqek, is a county-level city and the administrative seat of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.
Tacheng Prefecture
Tacheng Prefecture is located in northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
Tajiks
Tajiks (Tājīk, Tājek; Tojik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Tajiks of Xinjiang
Chinese Tajiks are ethnic Pamiris who live in the Pamir Mountains of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Xinjiang, China.
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Taklamakan Desert
The Taklamakan Desert (p, Xiao'erjing: تَاكْلامَاقًا شَاموْ, Такәламаган Шамә; تەكلىماكان قۇملۇقى, Täklimakan Qumluqi; also spelled Teklimakan) is a desert in Southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China.
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Tang campaign against Karakhoja
The Tang campaign against Karakhoja, known as Gaochang in Chinese sources, was a military campaign in 640 CE conducted by Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Karakhoja, based in the city of Turfan in Xinjiang.
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Tang campaign against Kucha
The Tang campaign against Kucha was a military campaign led by the Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er against the Tarim Basin oasis state of Kucha in Xinjiang, which was aligned with the Western Turkic Khaganate.
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Tang campaigns against Karasahr
The Tang campaigns against Karasahr were two military campaigns sent by Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Karasahr, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate.
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Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
The Tang campaigns against the Western Turks, known as the Western Tujue in Chinese sources, were a series of military campaigns conducted by the Tang dynasty against the Western Turkic Khaganate in the 7th century AD.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
Tao Zhiyue
Tao Zhiyue (1892 – 26 December 1988) was a Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, and a full general of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.
Taoism
Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
Tarim Basin
The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.
Tarim mummies
The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BCE.
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Tarim River
The Tarim River (c; Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China.
Tashkent
Tashkent, or Toshkent in Uzbek, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.
Tatars
The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.
Tömür Dawamat
Tömür Dawamat (Tömür Dawamet; p; June 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.
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Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible computer.
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The Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper is a monthly print publication, with daily updates online, founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City.
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The Australian
The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.
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The Business Standard
The Business Standard is a Bangladeshi daily newspaper published in English and Bengali.
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The Diplomat
The Diplomat is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Star (Malaysia)
Star Media Group Berhad (doing business as The Star) is an English-language newspaper in Malaysia.
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Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.
Tian Shan
The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia.
Tianshan, Ürümqi
Tianshan District (p; translit, Тәңритағ Райони) is one of 7 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China.
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Tianshannet
Tianshannet is the sole official news website of Xinjiang, China.
Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is an autonomous region of China and is part of Southwestern China. Xinjiang and Tibet Autonomous Region are autonomous regions of China and western China.
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Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.
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Tibetan Empire
The Tibetan Empire was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of imperial expansion under the Yarlung dynasty heralded by its 33rd king, Songtsen Gampo, in the 7th century.
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Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet.
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Tibeto-Burman languages
The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia.
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Tiemenguan City
Tiemenguan is a county-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Timurid Empire
The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey.
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Tiziano Terzani
Tiziano Terzani (14 September 1938 – 28 July 2004) was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of Saigon to the hands of the Viet Cong and the fall of Phnom Penh at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s.
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Tocharians
The Tocharians or Tokharians were speakers of the Tocharian languages, Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from around AD 400 to 1200, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China).
Tomato paste
Tomato paste is a thick paste made from tomatoes, which are cooked for several hours to reduce water content, straining out seeds and skins, and cooking the liquid again to reduce the base to a thick, rich concentrate.
Torugart Pass
Torugart Pass (is a mountain pass in the Tian Shan mountain range near the border between the Naryn Region of Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. It is one of two border crossings between Kyrgyzstan and China, the other being Erkeshtam, some 165 km (103 mi) to the southwest. The scenic lake Chatyr-Köl lies near the pass on the Kyrgyz side.
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Tourism in China
Tourism in China is a growing industry that is becoming a significant part of the Chinese economy.
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Trans-Karakoram Tract
The Trans-Karakoram Tract, also known as the Shaksgam Tract (شکسگام|translit.
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Transoxiana
Transoxiana or Transoxania is the Latin name for the region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding to modern-day eastern Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, parts of southern Kazakhstan, parts of Turkmenistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.
Tujia people
The Tujia (Northern Tujia: Bifjixkhar / Bifzixkar, IPA:, Southern Tujia: Mongrzzir) are an ethnic group and, with a total population of over 8 million, the eighth-largest officially recognized ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China.
Tumxuk
TumxukThe official spelling according to, 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 中国地图出版社 1997); is a county-level city in the western part of Xinjiang, China.
Turkestan–Siberia Railway
The Turkestan–Siberian Railway (commonly abbreviated as the Turk–Sib, translit,,; translit) is a broad gauge railway that connects Central Asia with Siberia.
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Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.
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Turkic settlement of the Tarim Basin
Turkic peoples began settling in the Tarim Basin in the 7th century.
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Turkistan Islamic Party
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is a Uyghur Islamic extremist organization founded in Pakistan by Hasan Mahsum.
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Turpan
Turpan (تۇرپان), generally known in English as Turfan (s), is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China.
Turpan Depression
The Turpan Depression or Turfan Depression, is a fault-bounded trough located around and south of the city-oasis of Turpan, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in far Western China, about southeast of the regional capital Ürümqi.
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Turpan–Ürümqi–Dahuangshan Expressway
The Turpan–Ürümqi–Dahuangshan Expressway, commonly referred to as the Tuwuda Expressway, is an expressway in the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang linking Turpan, Ürümqi, and Dahuangshan, a mountain peak in Fukang.
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Ulungur Lake
Ulungur Lake is located in Fuhai County, Xinjiang, China.
UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang
The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups in China.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England.
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University of Washington Press
The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house.
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Uqturpan County
Uqturpan County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or Uchturpan County (transliterated from), also Wushi County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of Aksu Prefecture and shares an approximately long border with Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region.
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Uralic languages
The Uralic languages, sometimes called the Uralian languages, form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia.
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UTC+06:00
UTC+06:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +06:00.
UTC+08:00
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
Uyghur Khaganate
The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, self defined as Toquz-Oghuz country; Nine clan people, Tang-era names, with modern Hanyu Pinyin: or) was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries.
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Uyghur language
Uyghur or Uighur (ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili, or ئۇيغۇرچە, Уйғурчә, Uyghurche, Uyƣurqə,, CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki) is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8–13 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China.
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Uyghur nationalism
Uyghur nationalism (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر مىللەتچىلىكى) is a nationalist movement which asserts that the Uyghur people, an ethnic minority in China, are a distinct nation. Uyghur nationalism promotes the cultural unity of the Uyghur people, either as an independent group or as a regional group within a larger Chinese nation.
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Uyghurs
The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.
Uzbeks
The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.
Wakhi people
The Wakhi people (ښیک مردمِش, Waxiēn, مردمان وخی; Ваханцы), also locally referred to as the Wokhik, are an Iranian ethnic group native to Central and South Asia.
Wang Feng (politician)
Wang Feng (1910–1998), original surname Wang, was a Chinese politician, born in Shaanxi Province.
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Wang Mang
Wang Mang (45 BCE6 October 23 CE), courtesy name Jujun, officially known as the Shijianguo Emperor, was the founder and the only emperor of the short-lived Chinese Xin dynasty.
Wei Yuan
Wei Yuan (April23, 1794March26, 1857), born Wei Yuanda, courtesy names Moshen (默深) and Hanshi (漢士), was a Chinese scholar from Shaoyang, Hunan.
West Asia
West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.
West–East Gas Pipeline
The West–East Gas Pipeline is a set of natural gas pipelines which run from the western part of China to the east.
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Western China
Western China is the west of China. Xinjiang and Western China are Inner Asia.
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Western Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)
Liang, known in historiography as the Western Liang (400–421), was a dynastic state of China listed as one of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
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Western Regions
The Western Regions or Xiyu (Hsi-yü) was a historical name specified in Ancient Chinese chronicles between the 3rd century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, most often the Tarim Basin in present-day southern Xinjiang (also known as Altishahr) and Central Asia (specifically the easternmost portion around the Ferghana Valley), though it was sometimes used more generally to refer to other regions to the west of China as well, such as Parthia (which technically belonged to West Asia) and Tianzhu (as in the novel Journey to the West, which refers to the Indian subcontinent in South Asia). Xinjiang and Western Regions are Inner Asia.
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Western Turkic Khaganate
The Western Turkic Khaganate or Onoq Khaganate (Ten arrow people) was a Turkic khaganate in Eurasia, formed as a result of the wars in the beginning of the 7th century (593–603 CE) after the split of the First Turkic Khaganate (founded in the 6th century on the Mongolian Plateau by the Ashina clan), into a western and an eastern Khaganate.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
White movement
The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).
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Wujiaqu
Wujiaqu is a county-level city in the northern part of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, about north of Ürümqi.
Wusu
UsuThe official spelling according to Zhōngguó dìmínglù, 中国地名录 (Beijing, SinoMaps Press 中国地图出版社 1997); as the official romanized name and transliterated from Mongolian, also known as Wusu, is a county-level city with more than 100,000 residents in Xinjiang, China.
Wusun
The Wusun (Eastern Han Chinese *ʔɑ-suən 《汉书·西域传》：乌孙国，大昆弥治赤谷城，去长安八千九百里。户十二万，口六十三万，胜兵十八万八千八百人。……故服匈奴，后盛大，取羁属，不肯往朝会。东与匈奴、西北与康居、西与大宛、南与城郭诸国相接。本塞地也，大月氏西破走塞王，塞王南越县度，大月氏居其地。后乌孙昆莫击破大月氏，大月氏徙、西臣大夏，而乌孙昆莫居之，故乌孙民有塞种、大月氏种云。 Around 176 BC the Xiongnu raided the lands of the Yuezhi, who subsequently attacked the Wusun, killing their king and seizing their land.
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping (or often;, pronounced; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012.
Xiaohe Cemetery
The Xiaohe Cemetery ('little river cemetery'), also known as Ördek's Necropolis, is a Bronze Age site located in the west of Lop Nur, in Xinjiang, Western China.
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Xibe language
The Xibe language (also Sibo, Sibe) is a Tungusic language spoken by members of the Sibe minority of Xinjiang, in Northwest China.
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Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.
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Xinjiang conflict
The Xinjiang conflict (c, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
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Xinjiang cotton industry
Xinjiang is the leading producer of cotton in China, accounting for about 20% of the world's cotton production and 80% of China's domestic cotton production.
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Xinjiang Economic Daily
The Xinjiang Economic Daily is a state-run daily newspaper published in the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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Xinjiang Flying Tigers
The Xinjiang Flying Tigers is a professional basketball team based in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
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Xinjiang internment camps
The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers (w) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by the government of Xinjiang and the Chinese Communist Party Provincial Standing Committee.
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Xinjiang Networking Transmission Limited
Xinjiang Networking Transmission Limited, also known as Xinjiang Broadcast Network, consists of media broadcasting to Ürümqi and the Xinjiang province area.
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Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station
Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station (XJBS) was a radio station broadcasting to the Xinjiang province area.
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Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XJBT; 新疆生产建设兵团; 新疆兵团), also known as Bingtuan ("The Corps"), trading with the external name China Xinjiang Group, is a state-owned enterprise and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Xinjiang Province
Xinjiang Province is a historical administrative area of Northwest China, between 1884 and 1955.
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Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C.
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C. is a defunct professional Chinese football club that participated in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA).
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Xinjiang Time
Xinjiang Time, also known as Ürümqi Time, is a time standard used in Xinjiang, China.
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Xinjiang under Qing rule
The Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China ruled over Xinjiang from the late 1750s to 1912.
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Xinjiang University
Xinjiang University (XJU) is a provincial public comprehensive university in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
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Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the regional committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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Xinxing, Xinjiang
Xinxing is a county-level city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Xiongnu
The Xiongnu were a tribal confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD.
Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes in therian mammals and other organisms.
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network.
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Yakub Beg of Yettishar
Muhammad Yakub Beg (30 May 1877), later known as Yakub Padishah, was the Kokandi ruler of Yettishar (Kashgaria), a state he established during his invasion of Xinjiang from 1865 to 1877.
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Yanbulaq culture
The Yanbulaq culture (Ch: 焉不拉克文化 or 焉布拉克文化, Yanbulake wenhua, 1100–500 BCE) was an ancient culture based on the tombs of the Yanbulaq Cemetery (Chinese 焉不拉克古墓群, Pinyin Yānbùlākè gǔmùqún or焉不拉克墓地, Yānbùlākè mùdì, English Yanbulaq Cemetery) located on the northern hills of the Qumul Basin, in Yizhou District, Xinjiang, China.
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Yang Zengxin
Yang Zengxin (March 6, 1864 – July 7, 1928) was the ruler of Xinjiang after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 until his assassination in 1928.
Yarkant County
Yarkant County,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also Shache County,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also transliterated from Uyghur as Yakan County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin.
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Yengisar County
Yengisar County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly transliterated as Yangi Hissar, from يېڭىسار ناھىيىسى, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency), also known as Yingjisha County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (s), is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in southwest Xinjiang, China.
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Yeniseian languages
The Yeniseian languages (sometimes known as Yeniseic or Yenisei-Ostyak;"Ostyak" is a concept of areal rather than genetic linguistics. In addition to the Yeniseian languages it also includes the Uralic languages Khanty and Selkup. The term "Yenisei-Ostyak" typically refers to the Ketic branch of Yeniseian.
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Yi people
The Yi or Nuosu people (Nuosu: ꆈꌠ,; see also § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in southern China.
Yining
YiningThe official spelling according to, also known as Ghulja (غۇلجا) or Kulja (Kazakh: قۇلجا), is a county-level city in Northwestern Xinjiang, China and the seat of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.
Yizhou District, Hami
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Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
Yuezhi
The Yuezhi were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the 1st millennium BC. After a major defeat at the hands of the Xiongnu in 176 BC, the Yuezhi split into two groups migrating in different directions: the Greater Yuezhi (Dà Yuèzhī 大月氏) and Lesser Yuezhi (Xiǎo Yuèzhī 小月氏).
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China. Xinjiang and Yunnan are western China.
Yurt
A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia.
Yutian County, Xinjiang
Yutian County (s), also transliterated from Uyghur as Keriya County (كېرىيە ناھىيىسى; s), is a county in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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Zhang Chunxian
Zhang Chunxian (born 12 May 1953) is a Chinese politician best known for his term as the Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang from 2010 to 2016.
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Zhang Qian
Zhang Qian (died c. 114 BC) was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and politician who served as an imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the late 2nd century BC during the Western Han dynasty.
Zhaotong
Zhaotong is a prefecture-level city located in the northeast corner of Yunnan province, China, bordering the provinces of Guizhou to the south and southeast and Sichuan to the northeast, north, and west.
Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County
Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County (usually referred to as "Zhenning County", commonly abbreviated as Zhenning; Buyei: Zenqninf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz Ziqziqxianq) is an autonomous county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Anshun, in the southwest of Guizhou Province, China.
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Zhuang people
The Zhuang (italic); Sawndip: 佈獞) are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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Zulfiya Abdiqadir
Zulfiya Abdiqadir (born May 1966) is a Uyghur civil servant in the People's Republic of China.
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Zuo Zongtang
Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠, Xiang Chinese:; Wade-Giles spelling: Tso Tsung-t'ang; November 10, 1812 – September 5, 1885), sometimes referred to as General Tso, was a statesman and military leader of the late Qing dynasty.
1997 Ürümqi bus bombings
On February 25, 1997, 3 bombs exploded on 3 buses (lines 2, 10, and 44) in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
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2007 Xinjiang raid
The January 2007 Xinjiang raid was carried out on January 5, 2007, by Chinese paramilitary police against a suspected East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) training camp in Akto County in the Pamir plateau.
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2008 Kashgar attack
The 2008 Kashgar attack occurred on the morning of 4 August 2008, in the city of Kashgar in the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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2011 Hotan attack
The 2011 Hotan attack was a bomb-and-knife attack that occurred in Hotan, Xinjiang, China on 18 July 2011.
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2014 Kunming attack
On 1 March 2014, a group of 8 knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers in the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, Yunnan, China, killing 31 people, and wounding 143 others.
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2020 Chinese census
The Seventh National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, also referred to as the 2020 Chinese Census, was the seventh national census conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China.
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5th Dalai Lama
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.
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See also
1955 establishments in China
- 10th Reserve Division (People's Republic of China)
- 1st Air Defense Force Corps (People's Republic of China)
- 5th Antiaircraft Artillery Division of Air Force (People's Republic of China)
- 6th Antiaircraft Artillery Division of Air Force (People's Republic of China)
- August 1 Medal (1955)
- Baixia, Nanjing
- Bayi Rockets
- Beijing Military Region
- Beijing Olympians
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Canglang District
- Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
- China Foreign Affairs University
- China National Peking Opera Company
- Chongqing Communication Institute
- Chongqing Zoo
- Colégio Mateus Ricci
- Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission
- East Sea Fleet
- Guangdong Institute of Education
- Guangzhou Military Region
- Guanting Hydropower Station
- Jinchang District
- Kaogu
- Order of Independence and Freedom
- Order of Liberation (China)
- Pingjiang District
- Pingshi Prison
- Qufu Normal University
- Radio Magazine
- Shanghai Exhibition Centre
- Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company
- Shushan Prison
- South Sea Fleet
- Sunan Shuofang International Airport
- Taizhou Luqiao Airport
- Third Ministry of Machine Building
- Tianjin Seagull
- Xiaguan, Nanjing
- Xinjiang
- Yanbian Funde F.C.
- Zhongyuan University of Technology
Autonomous regions of China
Inner Asia
- Amur Oblast
- Dzungar Khanate
- Gansu
- Greater Central Asia
- Han dynasty in Inner Asia
- Inner Asia
- Inner Mongolia
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Lifan Yuan
- Manchuria
- Ming dynasty in Inner Asia
- Mongolia
- Mugulü
- Nomadic empire
- Nomadic empires
- Northeast China
- Northeast China Plain
- Northern Yuan
- Outer Manchuria
- Outer Mongolia
- Primorsky Krai
- Qing dynasty in Inner Asia
- Qinghai
- Rouran
- Rouran Khaganate
- Tang dynasty in Inner Asia
- The Cambridge History of Inner Asia
- Tibet
- Timeline of the Oirats
- Western China
- Western Regions
- Xianbei
- Xinjiang
- Yeniseian people
- Yuan dynasty in Inner Asia
- Yujiulü clan
Iranian languages regions
States and territories established in 1955
- Austria
- Bône (département)
- Baixia, Nanjing
- Canglang District
- Chubut Province
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- East Pakistan
- Formosa Province
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Jinchang District
- Leimebamba District
- Marcona District
- Neuquén Province
- Pingjiang District
- Santiago District, Cusco
- South Vietnam
- Xiaguan, Nanjing
- Xinjiang
Turkic autonomous regions in China
- Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture
- Xinjiang
Western China
- Bogeda Biosphere Reserve
- Chongqing
- Gansu
- Guizhou
- Ningxia
- Northwestern China
- Qinghai
- Shaanxi
- Sichuan
- Southwestern China
- Tibet
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Western China
- Western Theater Command
- Xinjiang
- Xinjiang Province, Republic of China
- Yunnan
References
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