Tunganistan

English

Proper noun

Tunganistan

1. Exonym for in the territory in southern Xinjiang administered by the New 36th Division of the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1934 to 1937.
   • 1986, “The Role of the Hui Muslims (Tungans) in Republican Sinkiang”, in Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949‎^[1], CUP Archive, page 128:

     Following his withdrawal to Khotan in July 1934, Ma Hu-shan gradually consolidated his hold over the remote oases of the southern Tarim Basin, effectively establishing a Tungan satrapy where Hui Muslims ruled as colonial masters over their Turkic-speaking Muslim subjects ... The territory thus administered from 1934 to 1937 was given the entirely appropriate name of 'Tunganistan' by Walther Heissig.

   • 1949, Political Information: Soviet and Chinese Communist Conferences in Harbin‎^[2], Central Intelligence Agency, page 1:

     It is believed that these plans include the establishment of six socialist states: Manchuria, Chinese Turkestan, Tunganistan, Mongolia, and two others.