Citations:Sanju

English citations of Sanju

Town

Map including Sanju (Sang-chu) (DMA, 1984)

• 1870, G. W. Hayward, “Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River”, in Journal of the Royal Geographic Society‎^[1], volume 40, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 67:

  As we were to cross this range by the pass leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass.

• 1876, Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World‎^[2], Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 36:

  The Hakim of Guma visited the Mission as it passed through a portion of his district between Sanju and Kargalik. In a present of game sent by him we saw for the first time the "Shaw" pheasant, which to the ordinary eye looks exactly like our own home bird. We heard of ibex on the heights above Sanju, but were unable to go out after them.

• [2011 August 23, “Deaths linked to tainted vinegar in Xinjiang”, in China Daily‎^[3], archived from the original on 31 October 2019, China‎^[4]:

  A 6-year-old was among the dead in the incident, which occurred in Sangzhu, a village in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on late Friday, according to local police. Another person is in critical condition while the others are no longer in danger after being treated at the hospital.]

• 2018 May 18, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Popular Uyghur Singer’s Whereabouts Unknown, Believed Detained in Xinjiang Re-Education Camp”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[5], archived from the original on May 22, 2018‎^[6]:

  But a police officer in Guma’s Chawda township acknowledged that authorities in Ayup’s nearby home township of Sanju had briefly detained him there at the end of last year.

Mountain Pass

• 1870, G. W. Hayward, “Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River”, in Journal of the Royal Geographic Society‎^[7], volume 40, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 67:

  As we were to cross this range by the pass leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass.

• 1923, Ghulam Rassul, Aksakal of Leh Glawan, Servant of Sahibs‎^[8], Cambridge, England: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., →OCLC, page 265:

  The next day we started up toward the pass. The Sanju is a well-known bad pass. There was much bad ice, but for us get good luck over it, by kindly of snow.