 The name "East Turkestan" was created by the Russian Sinologist Nikita Bichurin to replace the term "Chinese Turkestan" in 1829, both being used to refer to the Tarim Basin.In 1759 the Qing China conquered the region.In 1884 Qing China, after the Dungan revolt (1862–1877), unified Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin into one political entity called Xinjiang () or roughly "New border", which was used to refer to "any" area of former Chinese empires that had been previously lost but was regained by the Qing.