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Notes for Chapter Two (Hoh): The names of the region currently known as Xinjiang reflect the complexity of the history of this region. According to Wikipedia (accessed October 9, 2010, /wiki/Xinjiang/wiki/Xinjiang), the area was called Chinese Turkestan, Sinkiang, East Turkestan, or Uyghuristan in older English-language reference works. Sometimes the term East Turkestan only referred to the Tian Shan mountains in the southern region. In Chinese history prior to Qing dynasty, this region was sometimes called Xiyu (西域, Western Regions), Chinese Tartary, High Tartary, East Chagatay, Mugholistan, Kashgaria, Altishahr (the six cities of the Tarim), Little Bokhara and Serindia. The name “Xinjiang,” was given during the Qing Dynasty. Yuan Shu, “Wang Shunan yu jin dai zhongguo xi bu kai fa (王树柟与近代中国西部开发, Shunan Wang and the History of Modern Developmental of the Northwestern China),” in Zhongguo dang dai si xiang bao ku (Si) (中国当代思想宝库（四）), ed. Junru Ma (Beijing: Zhongguo jing ji chu ban she, 2000), 56-62. “Wang Shunan yu xinjiang tu zhi” (王树柟与新疆图志), from Neimenggu xin wen wang (内蒙古新闻网) (accessed August 13, 2009. /system/2009/02/27/010185654.shtml/system/2009/02/27/010185654.shtml). The chapters that Shunan Wang authored were “Borders” (国界志), “Mountains” (山脉志), “Military Affairs” (兵事志), “The Review of the Classics” (访古录), “Social Customs and Supplements” (礼俗志和新疆小正), “Roadways” (道路志), “Soils” (土壤志). The chapters that Wang started but were finished by others are “The Administrative Affairs” (建置志), “Industry” (实业志). Shu Chao Hu, The Development of the Chinese Collection in the Library of Congress (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979), 82-83, 121, 213. A. W. Hummel was a missionary and was sent to Shanxi, China for evangelistic work in 1915. He was known as a famous Sinologist and was the first Chief of the Oriental Division (Asian Division) in the Library of Congress. During his 27-year service in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, the number of Chinese