Yining

• (from Wade–Giles) I-ning

From Mandarin 伊寧／伊宁 (Yīníng).

Yining

1. A county-level city in Ili prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2001, Chang, Gordon G., “Lake of Gasoline: The Discontent of the People Is Explosive”, in The Coming Collapse of China‎ (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     Relations between the Uighurs and the Chinese have always been bad, but in the last few years they’ve gotten even worse, especially since early 1997, when fighting flared in Yining, the capital of the short-lived East Turkestan Republic. Details are sketchy because the central government cordoned off Xinjiang from the rest of the world, but it appears that unrest — and subsequent executions — left several hundred dead, perhaps more.

2. A county of Ili prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

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