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Saken Omur
Saken Ömür (born 1927; ) is a Kyrgyz writer and poet from China. Saken was born in 1927 in Karajül village outside of Artush. From 1943 till 1946 he studied at Kashgar Normal College. He worked as a teacher at the Central University for Nationalities from 1957 to 1966, and as an editor for the Kyzylsuu newspaper from 1979 till his retirement in 1987. His first work ''When I see it with my own eyes'' (''Öz közüm menen körgöndö'') was published in 1961. During the sixties he also did a lot of work on the collecting, writing and publishing of Jusup Mamay Jüsüp Mamay (, zh, 居素甫·玛玛宜, April 18, 1918 – June 1, 2014) was a Kyrgyz artist and narrator of the national epic Manas. He was born in Akqi County, Xinjiang Province, Republic of China. Among the Manas performers in the latter ...'s version of the Manas epic. His novel ''Joyful Road'' (''Şaŋduu jol'') received the Tulpar literature award. Published books *In the Kereme mountain valley (''Kereme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Artush
Artush ( ; also transliterated as Artux or Atush) is a county-level city and the capital of Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China. The government seat is in Guangming Road Subdistrict. As of 2018, it has a population of 285,507 people, 81.4 per cent of whom are Uyghurs. Artush is the political, economic and cultural center of Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture. History In the Han Dynasty, it was a component of Shule, a significant town on the historic Silk Road, and continues to thrive in trade and business. In 60 BC, the Han Dynasty established the Protectorate of the Western Regions. Subsequently, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Artush fell under the authority of the Chief Official of the Western Regions, which later became part of Western Turkic Khaganate. In 649, it was incorporated into the Shule Governor's Office of the Protectorate General to Pacify the West. In 840, the Uyghur Khaganate and other tribes established the Kara-Khanid Khanate, of whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the Northwest China, northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the List of Chinese administrative divisions by area, largest province-level division of China by area and the List of the largest country subdivisions by area, 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over and has about 25 million inhabitants. Xinjiang Borders of China, borders the countries of Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan. The rugged Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun and Tian Shan mountain ranges occupy much of Xinjiang's borders, as well as its western and southern regions. The Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract regions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyrgyz Language
Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. A dialect of Kyrgyz known as Pamiri Kyrgyz is spoken in north-eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Kyrgyz is also spoken by many ethnic Kyrgyz through the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Turkey, parts of northern Pakistan, and Russia. Kyrgyz was originally written in Göktürk script, gradually replaced by the Perso-Arabic alphabet (in use until 1928 in the USSR, still in use in China). Between 1928 and 1940, a Latin-script alphabet, the Uniform Turkic Alphabet, was used. In 1940, Soviet authorities replaced the Latin script with the Cyrillic alphabet for all Turkic languages on its territory. When K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyrgyz People
The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz, Kirgiz, and Kirghiz; or ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia. They primarily reside in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and China. A Kyrgyz diaspora is also found in Russia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. They speak the Kyrgyz language, which is the official language of Kyrgyzstan. The earliest people known as "Kyrgyz" were the descendants of several Central Asian tribes, first emerging in western Mongolia around 201 BC. Modern Kyrgyz people are descended in part from the Yenisei Kyrgyz that lived in the Yenisey river valley in Siberia. The Kyrgyz people were constituents of the Tiele people, the Göktürks, and the Uyghur Khaganate before establishing the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate in the 9th century, and later a Kyrgyz khanate in the 15th century. Etymology There are several theories on the origin of ethnonym ''Kyrgyz''. It is often said to be derived from the Turkic languages, Turkic word ''kyrk'' ("forty"), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashi University
Kashi University (; ), formerly Kashgar University and Kashgar Normal College (), is a university in Kashgar, Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ..., China. History The university is the westernmost university in China. The school was founded in 1962 and was formerly known as Xinjiang Kashgar Teachers College, then Kashgar Normal College, and finally on April 28, 2015 the name was changed to Kashgar University as it was upgraded to university status. External links Kashgar University References {{authority control Universities and colleges in Xinjiang Kashgar Universities and colleges established in 1962 1962 establishments in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minzu University Of China
The Minzu University of China (MUC) is a national public university in Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Minzu University ranked first in China among universities for ethnic minority studies. It aims to be one of the best universities of its kind in the world for inheriting and promoting the excellent culture of all ethnic groups. With the strong support of Chinese government, it has developed rapidly over the years. MUC is one of the most prestigious universities in China in ethnology, anthropology, ethnic economies, regional economics, religion studies, history, dance, and fine arts. Name The Chinese name has the meaning "central ethnic university", suggesting a national-level university focused on serving minority ethnic groups. The old English name translated the ethnic term as "nationalities", based on the term used in German an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jusup Mamay
Jüsüp Mamay (, zh, 居素甫·玛玛宜, April 18, 1918 – June 1, 2014) was a Kyrgyz artist and narrator of the national epic Manas. He was born in Akqi County, Xinjiang Province, Republic of China. Among the Manas performers in the latter half of the 20th century, he was the only one to perform Manas in 8 parts and 230,000 lines. For his special contribution to the preservation of this epic and other epic works, the Kyrgyz republic awarded him with Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic The title Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic ( Kyrgyz: ) is a state award of the Kyrgyz Republic. It was established on 16 April 1996 by the law "On the establishment of state awards of the Kyrgyz Republic". As of June 2014, 23 people have been awarded ... in 2014. References 1918 births 2014 deaths Manaschis 20th-century Chinese poets Kyrgyzstani poets {{Kyrgyzstan-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Of Manas
The ''Epic of Manas'' is a lengthy and traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people of East and Central Asia. Versions of the poem which date to the 19th century contain historical events of the 8th century, though Kyrgyz tradition holds it to be much older. Manas is said to be based on Bars Bek, the first khagan of the Kyrgyz Khaganate. The plot of Manas revolves around a series of events that coincide with the history of the region, primarily the interaction of the Kyrgyz people with other Turkic, Mongolic and Chinese peoples. The government of Kyrgyzstan celebrated the 1,000th anniversary from the moment it was documented in 1995. The mythic poem has evolved over many centuries, being kept alive by bards called ''manaschy'' or ''manaschi''. The first written reference to the eponymous hero of Manas and his Oirat enemy Joloy is to be found in a Persian manuscript dated to 1792–93.Tagirdzhanov, A. T. 1960. "Sobranie istorij". Majmu at-tavarikh, Leningrad. In one of its doze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
