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Of course, the historical joke of this being uttered in China's Sinkiang province in 1947, a time when the unmentioned communist revolution is sweeping through the central provinces, passed the scriptwriters by.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2019
John Hall Paxton, U.S. consul general at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang Province, was eager to take his well-earned leave.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other routes have been kept open from Yunnan to French Indo-China, the old Imperial Highway rebuilt across the deserts of Sinkiang to the Soviet border.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kazaks of Qomul lived their nomadic life in China's far western province of Sinkiang until the busy Russians came in 1934.
From Time Magazine Archive
A current such expedition is in the Kunlun Mountains in that area once known as Sinkiang to the north, Tibet to the south.
From Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds
