Yengisar

English

Map including YENGISAR (YING-CHI-SHA) (DMA, 1984)

Alternative forms

• Yangi Hissar

Etymology

From Uyghur يېڭىسار (yë'ngisar).

Proper noun

Yengisar

1. A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1990 June 19 [1990 April 23], Shi Jian, Dong Jianshneg, Yusufujiang, Shi Linjie, “Report on the Quelling of the Counterrevolutionary Rebellion in Baren Township”, in Daily Report: China‎^[1], number 118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59, column 2‎^[2]:

     On 3 April, Abudure Yimu and Aihaiti Alabai, backbone members of the counterrevolutionary armed rebellion in Baren Township, went to Aigusi Township in Yengisar County to buy horses for battle. They offered a price as high as 2,000 yuan to buy a good horse owned by Danixi in San Village. The horse won several champions during races in Yengisar County.

   • 2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 357:

     Adil (sometimes spelled Ahdili after the Chinese transcription A-di-li Wu-shou-er), like any Chinese hero, endured great hardships to get where he is today. He was born in Yengisar (in the Kashgar district) in 1971 as the sixth generation scion of a family famous for dawaz.

   • 2018, Zhang Hui, “Xinjiang officials assigned as relatives to Uyghur villagers for ethnic unity campaign”, in Global Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 February 2020:

     An official surnamed Niu in Urumqi who was paired with a Uyghur family in a village in Yengisar county, Kashgar, at the end of 2016, told the Global Times that local villagers welcomed the stay of those "relatives," as they have been in contact for a year.

   • 2019, Eva Xiao, Pak Yiu, “Razed mosques and pervasive surveillance make for a tense Ramadan in China’s Xinjiang”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[4]:

     In Yengisar county, south of Kashgar, one mosque hung a photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping inside its premises, where most posters were dedicated to warning against religious extremism and promoting ethnic harmony.

   • 2019 May 22, Chris Buckley, Paul Mozur, Austin Ramzy, Aaron Krolik, “How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-05-22, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     In Kashgar, for example, the county of Yengisar warned this year of a “huge shortfall” from spending on security and said that it had accumulated 1 billion renminbi, or about $150 million, in previously undeclared “invisible debt.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yengisar.
2. A town in Yengisar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1976, Rewi Alley, “Kashgar and Khotan in South Sinkiang”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[7], volume XV, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 1:

     We passed a good deal of motor transport on the road which led to Yengisar and Yarkant. Kashgar is a trucking centre, and at night, then around dawn, one can hear convoys starting out to cross deserts and mountains.

   • 1993, Judy Bonavia, The Silk Road From Xi'an to Kashgar‎^[8], Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 276:

     Sixty-eight kilometeres southeast of Kashgar is the small town of Yengisar, whose 400-year history of knife-making has made it famous throughout Xinjiang. A Yengisar knife is essential for every Uygur man, who wears it slung around his waist. A knife is especially important during the melon season, when it is produced with a ceremonial flair and thoroughly cleaned before use by cutting off the base of a melon. Knives are carefully chosen; hand-made ones encrusted with stones and inlaid with silver are highly valued, but just as effective are the sturdier ones with bone or horn handles and carving on the blade.

   • 2014 September 17, Julie Makinen, “Great Read: For China’s Uighurs, knifings taint an ancient craft”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 16, 2015:

     More knives for sale in Yengisar, China. The Uighur craft of knife-making is often passed from father to son.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Yingjisha; Ying-chi-sha; Yingkisha

Translations

county in Kashgar, Xinjiang; town in Yengisar, Kashgar, Xinjiang

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英吉沙 (zh) (Yīngjíshā)

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• Uyghur: يېڭىسار (yë'ngisar)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yengisar”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3525, column 1

Anagrams

• Iyengars, Yeargins, resaying