A-k'o-su

English

Map including A-K'O-SU (AKSU) (DMA, 1985) (lower right)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 阿克蘇／阿克苏 (A¹-kʻo⁴-su¹).

Proper noun

A-k'o-su

1. Alternative form of Akesu (Aksu)
   • [1934 July 14, “Sinkiang Chief Predicts Early Suppression of Rebels”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[2], volume 69, number 7, →OCLC, page 257:

     Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe and well at Akosu.]

   • 1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China‎^[3], number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by Jen-min Yu-tian, →OCLC, page 16‎^[4]:

     The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.

   • 1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644-1820)‎^[5], University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 307:

     The Emperor decreed [to the ministers in the grand council]: "According to a memorial from Yü-ch'i,⁴²⁷ after he received Our edict, he ordered a search to discover whether the Mohammedans of Andijan who had returned to A-k'o-su from I-li, had brought Russian goods (furs) with them. What he has done is wrong.

   • 1976, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint‎^[6], volume 17, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162:

     The northern part of the Tarim Basin includes large cotton fields around A-k'o-su (Aksu), Hsin-ho, K'u-ch'e (Kucha) and K'u-erh-le (Korla), where the Tarim river and its tributaries are the main source of water supply. Long-staple cotton has been introduced to the state farms in A-k'o-su and K'u-erh-le, both of which are potential sites for cotton-textile manufacturing.

   • [1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796‎^[7], Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:

     In the 1750s Chao Chün-jui engaged in business in various towns in Sinkiang such as Yarkand and Akosu.[...]During these years he opened a shop in Yarkand and began to buy jade, which he entrusted to his employees Yu Chin-pao, Hsu Tzu-chien, and others to transport to Soochow in the lower Yangtze. There they sold the jade and bought silks and tea which could be marketed in Akosu and other towns on the northern rim of the Tarim Basin where Chao maintained commercial contacts.]

   • 1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., “The Chin Shu-jen Regime and its Relations with the Soviet Union: 1928 to 1933”, in Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949‎^[8], Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 62:

     There is general agreement that his military forces were organized into six divisions. They were stationed at the following places: at Ti-hua under the command of Liu Hsi-tsen, at T'a-ch'eng under Chiang Sung-lin, at Ili under Niu Shih, at A-shan under Wei Chen-kuo, at A-k'o-su under Chang Tzu-t'ing, and at Ko-shih-ko-erh^{[sic – meaning K'o-shih-ko-erh]} (Kashgar) nominally under Tsou-ying, but in reality under Chin's brother, Chin Shu-chih.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:A-k'o-su.

Translations

Akesu — see Akesu

Further reading

• A-k'o-su, Akosu, Akesu at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “A-k'o-su”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51, column 1: “A-k'o-su, CHINA: see AKSU”