I-ning

See also: ining

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 伊寧／伊宁 (Yīníng), Wade-Giles romanization: I¹-ning².

Proper noun

I-ning

1. Alternative form of Yining
   • 1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎^[1], John Day Company, →OCLC, page 119:

     Not until October, 1939, did Eurasia, through the medium of the newly formed Sino-Soviet Aviation Company, open a new service. It ran from Chungking to Ha-mi, whence, through the cooperation of Sinkiang authorities and the Soviet People's Aviation Company, it was continued via Tihwa, I-ning, and Alma-Ata (the latter over the border, in Soviet Kazakhstan) to Moscow.

   • 1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945‎^[2], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 231:

     In November 1944 Kazakhs, “White Russians,” and Tartars revolted in I-ning in western Sinkiang. They organized a government at I-ning by setting up a Local Maintenance Committee with An Te-hai, a Turki (the Turki, Moslems, are the largest population group in Sinkiang), as Chairman, with the reported aim of establishing an East Asia Turki Republic.

   • 1980, David Downing, An Atlas of Territorial and Border Disputes‎^[3], London: New English Library, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:

     In Sinkiang itself the Chinese were multiplying their own problems by pushing forward too hard and too fast with Sinification and Maoification programmes. Low- level guerrilla activity, punctuated by occasional urban uprisings, continued throughout the 1950s, until the Tibetan revolt of 1959 spilt over into Sinkiang and created a real crisis of authority. Two main centres of disaffection were I-ning and Ta- ch’eng, both close to the Soviet border.