Tihwa en · PROPN
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 迪化 (Díhuà).
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Dihua.
alt of Dihua
In August of this year I set out with two American friends from Tihwa, the provincial capital (better known perhaps by its Mongol name of Urumchi), to visit the Pei-ta-shan area, north-east of Tihwa, where there have been a number of clashes during the past two years between the Chinese and the Outer Mongolians, and also to try and locate the Kazak chieftan, Osman, who is the leading Kazak figure on the Chinese side.
1949, Ian Morrison, “Some Notes on the Kazaks of Sinkiang”, in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, volume 36, number 1, page 67:Paxton had refused to panic. He could not have known that only two days earlier, the American mission in Nanking had cabled Washington urging that the Tihwa consulate be closed immediately in view of the rapid Communist advance into the northwest.
1964, Peter Lisagor, Marguerite Higgins, Overtime in Heaven: Adventures in the Foreign Service, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174:She was anticipating the upcoming truck ride to Tihwa, the capital of Sinkiang, with a certain detachment.
1995, Peter Rand, China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 288:(c) To complete the section from Lanchow to Tihwa of the Nanking-Sinkiang Line. This line will be divided into three sections with Suchow and Hami and the dividing stations, and the airplanes will stop at Sian and Turfan.
1929 May 31, “Air Mail Services Throughout China To Be Established: Five Projects Contemplated by Government to Connect Large Cities in Unified System.”, in The United States Daily, page 12:Wallace crossed into China on June 18 at Tihwa, in the western province of Sinkiang.
2000, John C. Culver, John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, W. W. Norton & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 333:I dined with Governor Sheng in Tihwa, and the Soviet Consul-General dined with us. We toasted each other and the three countries from which we came in Russian vodka and in Chinese rice wine, and there was no hint of anything but cordial friendship between Russia and China. But the next morning I had a private breakfast, at his suggestion, with the Chinese Governor, who once was sympathetic with the Communists and of late has shifted his allegiance to the Generalissimo.
1943, Wendell L. Willkie, One World, Cassell and Company Ltd., page 81: