Changji

See also: Chāngjí, chāngjì, chángjì, chǎngjí, chǎngjì, and chàngjī

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-chi (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昌吉 (Chāngjí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒiː/, /t͡ʃɑːŋˈd͡ʒiː/

Proper noun

Changji

1. A Hui autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
   • [1978, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], numbers 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:

     During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

   • 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads‎^[2], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

     As elsewhere in Xinjiang, the number of Han Chinese throughout the Changji prefecture increased in the late 1950s. Towns and villages all along the main east-west road experienced considerable growth.

   • 2021 January 8, Ana Swanson, Christopher Buckley, “Chinese Solar Companies Tied to Use of Forced Labor”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 January 2021‎^[4]:

     On its public WeChat account, East Hope Group said that it had “responded to the national Western Development Call and actively participated in the development and construction of Xinjiang,” including constructing a polysilicon project in Changji prefecture in 2016, the Horizon report said.

   • 2021 May 13, Cate Cadell, “Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build a beautiful Xinjiang'”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 13 May 2021, China‎^[6]:

     In Changji, about 40 km west of the regional capital, Urumqi, green and red minarets of the city's Xinqu Mosque lay broken below a Chinese flag flying over the deserted building's courtyard.
     Reuters analysed satellite imagery of 10 mosques in Changji city and visited six of them.
     A total of 31 minarets and 12 green or gold domes had been removed within a period of two months after April 2018, according to dated images.
     At several mosques, Islamic architecture was replaced with Chinese-style roofing. These included Changji's Tianchi road mosque, whose gold dome and minarets were removed in 2018, according to publicly available satellite images.

2. A county-level city in Changji, in northern Xinjiang, China.

Translations

autonomous prefecture and county-level city in Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 昌吉 (zh) (Chāngjí)

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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: سانجى (sanji)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changji”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 725, column 1