Hsin-chiang

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Hsin-chiang

1. Alternative form of Xinjiang
   • 1929, Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 8:

     His father, who died a few months, was the P'an Ta-jen of Sir Aurel Stein's books, the scholarly administrator by whose friendly interest his explorations were so well furthered. A scholar and a gentleman of the old tradition, and an able official who had had many high posts, he was beloved throughout the province of Hsin-chiang, where he was known as "P'an the Good."

   • 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China‎^[2], Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:

     Aside from the Turfan depression in Hsin-chiang (Sinkiang) province, the hottest part of China lies in the middle and lower Yangtze Valley. Maximum temperatures of 43°-44°C (110°-112°F) have been recorded in Ch'ang-sha and Nan-ching.

   • 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building‎^[3], Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:

     In the west, the outer periphery of the Inner Zone is the great divide separating Pacific Ocean and South China Sea drainage on the one hand, from drainage oriented towards Hsin-chiang in the northwest and towards the Indian Ocean in the southwest, on the other.

   • 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings‎^[4], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

     The city will serve as the supply base of steel to Kan-su, Ch'ing-hai, and even Hsin-chiang for the various heavy construction projects.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hsin-chiang.

Translations

Xinjiang — see Xinjiang

Further reading

• “Hsin-chiang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Hsin-chiang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.