Chinese Turkestan
Britishnoun
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Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Urumchi, in Chinese Turkestan, officials halted the party, held three of the cars there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Across the Himalayas, at Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, almost in mid-Asia, the Haardt party was to be met by seven other cars which had left Peiping when the first party left Beirut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan, though largely desert, contain within their vast areas enough fertile land to support many millions of Chinese peasants as soon as modern roads and railways are built.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop
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