Tumxuk

Proper noun

Tumxuk

1. A sub-prefectural city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • The stated mission of the Bingtuan is to increase the Han population of Xinjiang: recruiting Han migrants, supported by subsidies from Beijing, is ‘the will of the state.'⁶ For example, a Bingtuan advertisement circulated on the ubiquitous Chinese social media app Weixin/WeChat in the first half of...2007, James A. Millward, “Colonialism, Assimilationism and Ethnocide (2000s-2020s)”, in Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 367
   • Frontier Services Group said in January that it had reached an agreement with officials and an industrial park in Tumxuk, a city in western Xinjiang, to build a training facility there....Tumxuk lies between Kashgar and Aksu, larger settlements that have been a focus of the Chinese government’s...2019 February 1, Alexandra Stevenson, Chris Buckley, “Blackwater Founder’s New Company Strikes a Deal in China. He Says He Had No Idea.”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

   Synonyms:

   Tumushuke

2. A town in Onsu, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • But I hadn’t come to stay: my goal was two ancient Buddhist sites built into cliffs near a town called Tumxuk....It seemed easy enough to get there; there was only one town named Tumxuk on the map, located north of Aksu.1994, Christa Paula, The Road to Miran, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39