Definition of "Tihua"

In January 1934, when Ma Chung-ying's troops laid siege to Tihua (Urumchi), Soviet Russia sent Red Army units into Sinkiang to help Sheng against Ma.

1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, page 99