Artush
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Artush
- Synonym of Artux
- 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965[1], volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 743, column 1:
- The name Saifudin is a Chinese corruption of Saif-al-din Azia (or Seyfudin Azizov, the Russian variant), and it is transliterated into Chinese as Sai Fu-ting. The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest of Kashgar, not far from the Russian border.
- 2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 378–379:
- A state-owned steel company from Jiangxi pledged to invest 7.5 billion yuan in the proposed Ganxin Iron and Steel plant in Artush, outside of Kashgar, with a projected annual production capacity of one million tons.
- 2009, Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius, “A Feather Fell Down From One Angel”, in Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China[2], Kales Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 133:
- I took the bus to Artush, which was about sixty miles to the north, and got off at a pass in the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.
- 2019 November 3, Fred Hiatt, “In China, every day is Kristallnacht”, in The Washington Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-04, Opinions[4]:
- The dome of a Uighur mosque in Artush, Xinjiang, was removed in 2018.
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Artux — see Artux