Zepu

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 澤普 / 泽普 (Zépǔ).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dzŭ′po͞o′[2]
  • Hyphenation: Ze‧pu

Proper noun

Zepu

  1. Synonym of Poskam: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • 2009, Hasan H. Karrar, “Deepening Sino-Central Asian Cooperation, 1996-2001”, in The New Silk Road Diplomacy: China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War (Contemporary Chinese Studies)‎[2], UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 113:
      On October 24, 1999, terrorists were said to have attacked the police station in Saili [translating 賽力 / 赛力 (Sàilì)] Township, Zepu County, with guns, machetes, incendiary bombs, and grenades.
    • 2018 January 8, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur Detentions Continue in Xinjiang, Despite Pledge to End With Party Congress”, in Radio Free Asia‎[3], archived from the original on 09 January 2018‎[4]:
      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.
    • 2019, Dagikhudo Dagiev, Carole Faucher, editors, Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia (Central Asian Studies Series)‎[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
      Poskam (Zepu) County is 30 km to the east of Yarkand and is the petroleum and natural gas producing hub of southern Xinjiang.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Lattimore, David (1994), “Table of Names”, in High Tartary‎[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 373: “Usage in High Tartary / Current Usage in Pinyin Transliteration / Name and Other Common Usages […] Posgam / Zepu / Tse-p’u Poskam”
  2. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Posgam”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1510, column 1: “Chinese Tsehpu or Tse-p’u […]”
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