English citations of Guma

County edit

  • 1963, Central Asian Review[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 177:
    In Guma County, on the foothills of the Kunlun, in the locality of Kulan-Aryk, Sanju, etc., are between 300 and 350 persons affiliated to the Naiman, Teyit, Kesek, Boston and other groups .
  • 1989, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes[2], volume 79, →OCLC, page 245:
    This is an original characteristic of the Turkic languages which has disappeared from the other dialects of modern Uygur, but it has been partly retained by the Lobnor dialect and the Hotan dialect spoken in the County of Guma.
  • 2020 September 9, Willem Marx, Olivia Sumrie, “Uighurs accuse China of mass detention, torture in landmark complaint”, in NBC News[3], archived from the original on 09 September 2020[4]:
    Among those who told NBC News they were detained was Omer, who was born in Guma County, a predominantly Uighur part of Xinjiang region. He said his ordeal began in 2017 when he was arrested at the airport in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital and largest city, after returning from Egypt where he had been working for six months as a chef.
  • 2020 August 21, Asim Kashgarian, “China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men”, in Voice of America[5], archived from the original on 29 September 2021[6]:
    In a January article on the Chinese site NetEase, Mau Tao, a CCP official in Guma county of southern Xinjiang, said that “religious extremism” was behind the lack of ethnic unity between Uighurs and Han Chinese. He said that 2000 and 2010 national censuses showed that Xinjiang had the lowest rate of interethnic marriage among ethnic minorities.
  • 2021 February 17, Abliz Sadiq, “The Facts Are Facts. They Shouldn’t Be Distorted”, in Cheng Li, editor, Tianshannet[7], archived from the original on 09 September 2022[8]:
    In 2019, I was dispatched to work in Fanghuiju team in Azghanbagh village, Muji Town, Guma County of Hotan Prefecture. There I witnessed the unprecedented changes happened in southern Xinjiang villages.

Town edit

 
Map including P’I-SHAN (GUMA BAZAR) (USATC, 1971)
  • 1984, Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road[9], John Murray, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77:
    He started by asking the elders and officials whether they knew of the discovery of any old books in the desert around Guma. Nobody had. Of the list of sites which Islam Akhun had included in his itinerary published by Hoernle, only two were known to them. As both lay close to Guma, Stein rode out to inspect them.