A-k'o-su
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 阿克蘇 /阿克苏 (A¹-kʻo⁴-su¹).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: [1934 July 14, “Sinkiang Chief Predicts Early Suppression of Rebels”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 69, number 7, →OCLC, page 257:
text: 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.
ref: 1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by Jen-min Yu-tian, →OCLC, page 16:
text: 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.
ref: 1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820), University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 307:
text: The CYL members and young people in Akosu Region, Sinkiang, have actively taken part in the three great revolutionary movements and the movement to criticize revisionism and rectify the style of work.
ref: [1973 May 22 [1973 May 3], “Sinkiang CYL Members”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 99, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 2:
text: 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.
ref: 1976, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162:
text: 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.
ref: [1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:
text: 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.
ref: 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, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 62:
glosses: Alternative form of Akesu (Aksu)
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