Chinese Turkestan
English
Alternative forms
- Chinese Turkistan
Proper noun
Chinese Turkestan
- Xinjiang.
- 1973 October 28, “Paintings featured on stamps”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 42, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 4, column 1:
- The horses in these paintings were gifts presented to Emperor Chien Lung (1736-1796) of the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) by chieftains from Chinese Turkestan where the uprisings of Western Mongols and Moslems in 1750's had just been suppressed. Chien Lung cherished those horses so much that he ordered his court painter, Castiglione, to portray them on silk.
- 1993, Fred W. Bergholz, The Partition of the Steppe, Peter Lang, page 295:
- By 1698 Tzevan-Ravdan had solidified his mastery over the Zunghar Khanate. In 1697 he had quickly moved his forces into Galdan's former domains in Chinese Turkestan to achieve domination there, too.
-