Dihuaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 迪化 (Díhuà).

固有名詞

Dihua

1. Former name of Ürümqi.
   • 1992, John Bryon; Robert Pack, The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng—the Evil Genius Behind Mao—and His Legacy of Terror in People's China‎^[1], Simon & Schuster, page 130:

     The first stop they made in China was at the garrison city of Dihua, the Chinese Turkestan capital, where Wang Ming and Hang called on the local warlord, Sheng Shicai.

   • 2004, Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World‎^[2], Oxford University Press, page 180:

     Sheng Shicai, the governor of the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the population of which was largely ethnic Uighur rather than Chinese, invited Du to take up the chancellorship of the Xinjiang Academy, the higher education institution for the province located in the city of Dihua (now known as Urumqi).

   • 2018, Judd C. Kinzley, Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands‎^[3], University of Chicago Press, page 66-67:

     The fact is that there were goldfields in the Tianshan Mountain range located far closer to the provincial capital of Dihua and Xinjiang's provincial transport network. Similarly, earlier reports and even a few smaller-scale Russian surveys identified several oilfields located within 10 kilometers of Dihua, a major market for petroleum products, the center of government, and the primary hub on the provincial transport network.