Dabancheng

English

Alternative forms

• Ta-pan-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 達坂城 / 达坂城 (Dábǎnchéng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.bɑn.t͡ʃɒŋ/, /-t͡ʃʌŋ/, /-t͡ʃɛŋ/

Proper noun

Dabancheng

1. A district of Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
   • [1882 [1881 April 21], Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1881‎^[1], Shanghai, →OCLC, page 49:

     On arrival of the news at Urumtsi, a panic occurred amongst the officials and Chinese population, and So and Yang seized the opportunity to incite the Mahomedan population in the country round to attack the town of Ta-pan Ch’êng, not far distant from Urumtsi.]

   • [1958, Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[2], numbers 1762-1781, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

     Work on the Tien Shan tunnel project at Tapancheng will also be advanced in the beginning of May.]

   • 1993, Judy Bonavia, The Silk Road From Xi'an to Kashgar‎^[3], Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:

     Beyond a large salt lake is the town of Dabancheng, where buses sometimes stop at the lively Peasant-Farmers Market. The ladies of old Dabancheng were made famous by an Uygur folksong praising their beautiful long plaits. Beyond the town are the ruins of a fort built in 1870 by Yakub Beg of Kashgar and destroyed soon after by the Qing- dynasty army that was sent to put down the rebellion.
     From Dabancheng the road begins its descent into the Turpan Depression, leaving the railway and weaving through the rocky White Poplar Gully.

   • 2010, Neil Morris, The Energy Mix‎^[4], Mankato, MN: Smart Apple Media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     At Dabancheng, in Xinjiang province in the northwest, China is building a wind farm that could one day be the largest in the world. Chinese wind engineers are calling it the “Three Gorges of the sky” after the dam.

   • 2014, 李欣凭 [Li Xinping], 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang]‎^[5], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 115–116:

     In 2009, the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Dabancheng District to jointly build the “China Wind Valley”, and started building the largest experimental wind farm and a demonstration wind farm of 50,000 kilowatts; In December, the maximum power wind generating set of 3 MW was successfully set and debugged to operate at the Dabancheng experimental wind farm.

   • 2020 September 23, Anna Fifield, “China is building vast new detention centers for Muslims in Xinjiang”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2020, Asia & Pacific‎^[7]:

     Some prison-style facilities like the one outside Kashgar are new. Other existing sites have been expanded with higher-security areas. New buildings added to Xinjiang's largest camp, in Dabancheng, near Urumqi, last year stretched to almost a mile in length, Ruser said.

   • 2022 August 25, Nick Cumming-Bruce, Austin Ramzy, “U.N. Report on Rights Abuses in Xinjiang May Be Delayed Again”, in The New York Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[9]:

     A detention facility in Dabancheng, Xinjiang, last year. Former detainees have described physical abuse, mistreatment and hours of indoctrination in official Communist Party ideology.

Translations

district of Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達坂城 / 达坂城 (zh) (Dábǎnchéng)

• Uyghur: داۋانچىڭ (dawanching)