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Proper noun
Singkiang
- Misspelling of Sinkiang.
1964 May 31, “RED RIFT ECHOES IN CENTRAL ASIA; Sinkiang, in China, Hears Soviet Kazakhstan's Radio”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 October 2023, page 8:Moscow's position in its quarrel with Peking is being echoed alose to the Chinese border I the native languages of most of the inhabitants of Singkiang, China's Central Asian province known also as East Turkestan. […]
Uigurs constitute about 75 per cent of the population of Sinkiang and Kazakhs about 10 per cent.
1977 September, “The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall Successfully Completed”, in China Pictorial, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:Warm letters and precious gifts came pouring in to the construction site from all parts of the country. Among the gifts were saw-wort seeds gathered from the Tienshan Mountains by workers in Singkiang, chingko barley from emancipated serfs in Tibet, earth from people in quake-stricken Tangshan who were rebuilding their homes, water and sand from the Taiwan Straits from P.L.A. men on the Fukien frontline, colour pebbles from Yuhuatai, Nanking, milky quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, camellias from Tali, Yunnan, azaleas from Kangting, Szechuan, earth from the Chingkang Mountains, Kiangsi, water from Nanniwan, Shensi, etc. They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao.
2011, Peter Iliyn, Out of the Far Corners: An Epic Tale of Rejection, Grace, and Deliverance, YWAM Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 210:Luba was born on November 26, 1958, in the Singkiang province of China. Shortly after the birth of Luba’s younger brother, Alex, her family began the long journey to Shanghai, and eventually to Australia. Luba was two and a half years old as they approached the city of Lanzhou.
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