Definition of "Sining"

Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers.

1909, William Edgar Geil, The Great Wall of China‎, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., page 286

Peter had the bright idea of at once looking up C. C. Ku, to whom we had an introduction from his brother, a student in Peking. Ku spoke fluent English, having studied at Cornell University. He had been sent from Nanking to Sining with the rank of lieutenant-general, and succeeded in making a good impression on “The Young General,” Ma Bu-fang.

1937, Ella K. Maillart, Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir‎, William Heinemann Ltd, page 53

We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake.

1940, Violet Cressy-marcks, Journey Into China‎, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 280