Bachu

• Pa-ch'u (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴楚 (Bāchǔ).

• enPR: bä′cho͞o′^[1]
• Hyphenation: Ba‧chu

Bachu

1. Synonym of Maralbexi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1971 February 5 [1971 January 18], “Sinkiang Militiaman”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 25, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 3:

     Comrade (Wu-pu-lien-shan), who came from a poor Uighur peasant family, was a militiaman of the 2nd production brigade of Tungfanghung commune in Pachu County, Sinkiang.]

   • 2003 February 24, John Pomfret, “Quake Kills More Than 250 in Western China”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 March 2024‎^[2]:

     Farmhouses and schools collapsed and dormitories crumbled when the temblor, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit the western part of Xinjiang province, near China's mountainous border with Kyrgyzstan, on Monday morning.
     In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses collapsed, according to the state-run New China News Agency. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.

   • 2013 November 17, Jane Perlez, “9 Attackers and 2 Officers Reported Killed in Tense Western China”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 November 2013, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Details of the assault were sparse, but the news agency said the attackers in Selibuya had been armed with knives and axes. Calls to the authorities in Kashgar, about 100 miles from the police station, and in the nearby town of Bachu were not answered.

   • 2023 July 15, Shohret Hoshur, Mary Zhao, “Facing abuse, teenage Uyghur girls are forced to work in a Xinjiang garment factory”, in Uyghur Service, transl., edited by Roseanne Gerin and Malcolm Foster, Radio Free Asia‎^[5], archived from the original on 22 July 2023‎^[6]:

     The garment factory employs residents who mostly hail from Maralbeshi, or Bachu in Chinese, in Kashgar province, the largest cotton-producing county in Xinjiang.