Word: xinjiang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cosmo says his research into the Inner Asian nomadic tribes have given him glimpses of a past rare in this age of transatlantic supersonic travel. He recalls a trip he made two years ago to visit Kazakh nomads in Xinjiang, the northwestern province of China...
...from the sunset to the edge of the highway. We talked about my itinerary for the week: Xiamen, my grandparents' tombs, this and that famous temple and mountain; what I'd seen in Beijing: the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall; where else I'd been: Xinjiang, Xian, Tianjin...
...made a special trip to the wharf, to buy my father's favorite fish for my welcome dinner. At dinner my cousins kept me supplied with the biggest piece of fish, the biggest shrimp, the biggest crab. Later, when he learned I had liked the Hami melons in Xinjiang, Li Gan made a special trip to the fruit stand. When we bicycled around the city, making a pilgrimage to my father's old high school or combing tape stores for recordings, Li Gan insisted on carrying the bicycle onto the sidewalk and locking it for me. We also stopped...
...shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...
...WHAT AMOUNTS TO AN OBSCENE GESTURE TO THE rest of the world, China exploded a nuclear warhead with a yield of 1 million tons of tnt at its underground test range in far northwestern Xinjiang province. It was the largest such blast the Chinese have ever detonated and far bigger than the 150-kiloton testing limit the U.S. and the former Soviet Union have been observing under a 1974 agreement...