Wulumuqi

See also: Wūlǔmùqí

English

Alternative forms

• Wulumuchi, Wu-lu-mu-ch'i (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of 烏魯木齊／乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wuːˈluːmuːˌt͡ʃiː/
• enPR: wo͞oʹlo͞oʹmo͞oʹchēʹ

Proper noun

Wulumuqi

1. Synonym of Ürümqi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1983 September 22 [1983 August], Lu Su, “Inner Party Workings Revealed in Deng Xiaoping's Selected Works”, in Cheng Ming (爭鳴 (zhēngmíng))‎^[1], number 70, Hong Kong: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 73:

     In addition to its criticism of Ye Wenfu, "Talk About Problems on the Ideological Front" also criticized a literary alliance preparatory group convener in Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Province. Deng Xiaoping said the following:
     "There was also the convener of the literary alliance preparatory group in Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, who aired his views freely a few days ago; much of what he said went much farther than some anti-socialist statements made in 1957. Quite a few incidents of this kind have taken place." ("Deng’s Selected Works," page 45)....
     Deng Xiaoping acknowledged that he "felt very alarmed" at reading information about Ye Wenfu's speech and about the literary alliance convener in Wulumuqi. "Opposition to bourgeois liberalization" was thus launched under these circumstances.

   • 1988, Philip T. Rosen, International Handbook of Broadcasting Systems‎^[2], Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 74–75:

     In addition, news programs are relayed by microwave to twenty-seven provincial capitals and municipalities except in remote areas like Wulumuqi in Xinjiang and Lhasa in Tibet, where the programs of China Central Television sometimes can be watched through experimental synchronous communications satellites.

   • 2009, Zoë S. Roy, “Balloons”, in Butterfly Tears‎^[3], Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

     In mid-August, Suyun passed the defence for her thesis. As planned, she would return to Wulumuqi City where her fiancé had been waiting for her for three years.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wulumuqi.

Translations

Capital of Xinjiang — see Ürümqi

Further reading

• Wulumuqi, Wulumuchi at Google Ngram Viewer