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Hotan
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Hotan [ˈhəʊˈtæn], Hotien, Ho-t'ien [ˈhəʊˈtjɛn]
n
1. (Placename) an oasis in W China, in the Taklimakan Shamo desert of central Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, around the seasonal Hotan River
2. (Placename) the chief town of this oasis, situated at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. Pop.: 71 600 (latest est.) Also called Khotan Hetian


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Pocha HETIAN, China--On a recent Friday, the holy day of Islam, crowds swelled inside the antique Jame mosque, the largest in this ancient town in Xinjiang Province in the far west of China, home to the nation's small but restive Muslim minority.
In images such as Two Miners, Datong, Shanxi Province, 1996, or Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjiang Province, 1996, labor is sordidly, hauntingly personified, while in Two Rich Men on New Year's Eve, Beijing, 1999, and A Chinese Girl with a Foreign Friend, Beijing, 1996, its effects are likewise sharply drawn.
There is reason to believe that the Yuezhi were instrumental in bringing the famous jade stones of the distant Hetian oasis in central Asia to dynastic China.
 
 
 
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