kashi

name

1. Synonym of Kashgar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

   “In September 1986, in Duolu Township, which is in Hetan^([sic]) Prefecture's Luopu County in Southern Xinjiang, people began to contract the communicable non-Type A-non-Type B enteric hepatitis. The disease spread to some of the rural areas in Hetan^([sic]), Kashi, and Kizilsu.”

   “In the dusty bazaar streets of Kashi, also known as Kashgar, Uighur hatred of Chinese authorities runs deep. Many here believe that more than 100 died fighting Chinese troops last spring in the nearby town of Baren.”

   “W. L. Abbott visited the northern Tarim Basin in the autumn of 1893 (Richmond 1895) and F. Ludlow collected in the northern basin between Kashi (Kashgar) and Jam near Aksu between 17 November 1929 and 13 April 1930, and again from 15 to 29 September 1930, and also documented the observations and collections of G. Sherriff (Ludlow and Kinnear 1933-1934).”

   “An official from neighboring Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture’s Poskam (Zepu) county, who also asked to remain unnamed, told RFA that authorities have been instructed to “make sure that everything is safe” while patrolling the streets of the county, and that they had been provided with notebooks including a list of “the names and pictures of individuals on record” to be detained.”

2. Synonym of Varanasi.

   “In the mind of India, Varanasi or Kashi is an ancient space suspended in an unbroken continuum, not a project under construction.”