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Dushanzi, Karamay

district of China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1023118 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dushanzi District (Tu Shan Tzu) or Maytag District, is a district of the city of Karamay, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Karamay City. It contains an area of 400 km2 (150 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000.

Editorial summary

“Dushanzi, Karamay” enters the record as district of China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dushanzi, Karamay and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dushanzi, Karamay and district.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Dushanzi, Karamay” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dushanzi, Karamay and district provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1023118. Authority coordinates are 44.330, 84.883. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dushanzi, Karamay”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dushanzi, Karamay primary sources, Dushanzi, Karamay archive and Dushanzi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dushanzi, Karamay”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dushanzi, Karamay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.