Kargilik

English

Alternative forms

• Qaghiliq, Karghalik

Etymology

From Uyghur قاغىلىق (qaghiliq).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kärgälǐkʹ

Proper noun

Kargilik

1. A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1997, Travelling around Xinjiang: A Land of Enchantment‎^[2], Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155, column 3:

     At present, a 1 360-km drifting route by raft from the Yarkant Bridge of Yecheng (Kargilik) to the Daxihaizi reservoir of Wensu County has been opened.

   • 2017 February 23, Li Fangfang, “Opportunity in Diversity”, in Beijing Review‎^[3], archived from the original on February 22, 2017:

     While over 90 percent of Kargilik's 500,000-strong population are Uygurs, Manas, regarded as the western gateway to Urumqi, has a Han majority. Memet had met few Han people in Kargilik. In Manas, he made friends with the community easily, despite the fear mongering in the past that the Han were taking over Uygur jobs. "My Han friends ask me to dinner during the Spring Festival," Memet told Beijing Review.

   • 2019, Alexandra Ma, “Before-and-after photos show how China is destroying historical sites to monitor and intimidate its Muslim minority”, in Business Insider‎^[4], archived from the original on April 28, 2019:

     Kargilik mosque — all gone
     Satellite images taken in September 2018 and April 2019 appear to show that a mosque in Kargilik county, southwest Xinjiang, had been demolished completely. The two structures in the red box serve as location markers for the before and after images.

   • 2019 November 24, Sasha Chavkin, “Xinjiang’s Architect Of Mass Detention: Zhu Hailun”, in International Consortium of Investigative Journalists‎^[5], archived from the original on November 24, 2019:

     Zhu arrived in Xinjiang in 1975 as a “sent-down youth,” part of a Communist Party initiative that sent educated urban youths to live in the countryside to further China’s Maoist revolution. A member of China’s Han ethnic majority, he was 17 when he departed prosperous Jiangsu province on China’s east coast for Kargilik, a remote county amid the deserts and steppes of China’s far northwest. Uighurs, the region’s largest ethnic group, had long chafed under official discrimination and economic marginalization under Beijing.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kargilik.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Yecheng, Yehcheng, Yeh-ch'eng

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葉城／叶城 (zh) (Yèchéng), 喀格勒克 (Kāgélèkè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قاغىلىق (qaghiliq)

Further reading

• Kargilik, Karghalik, Yecheng, Yehcheng, Yehch'eng, Yeh-ch'eng, Yeh-cheng at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yecheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3521, column 1: “Also called Kargilik.”