Tumushuke

See also: Túmùshūkè

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 圖木舒克／图木舒克 (Túmùshūkè).

Proper noun

Tumushuke

1. Synonym of Tumxuk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 2013, Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China‎^[1], University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page viii:

     The Chinese appropriation of "other" types of architecture results from all kinds of negotiation. Professor Ning Qiang recently showed me photographs of the city hotel of Tumushuke (Tumxuk), a town just east of Kashgar in China's westernmost, Islamic province, built in an eighteenth-century northern European style found anywhere....

   • 2020 April 13, Gulchehre Hoja, Joshua Lipes, “Subsidies For Han Settlers ‘Engineering Demographics’ in Uyghur-Majority Southern Xinjiang”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 April 2020‎^[3]:

     In some of the videos, Han migrants say that any single person below the age of 35 who moves to the sub-prefecture-level cities of Aral (in Chinese, Ala'er) in Aksu (Akesu) prefecture or Tumshuk (Tumushuke) in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture will be provided with a house and a job, while a family of three will receive a two-bedroom home, free utilities for a year, and 40 mu (6.5 acres) of land, tax-free.

Translations

Tumxuk — see Tumxuk