Iasyr Shivaza

Iasyr (Yasyr) Shivaza or Shiwaza (Dungan: Ясыр Шывазы, Yasir Shiwazi, IPA: [jasɨːr ʂɨːvaːtsɨː]; simplified Chinese: 雅斯尔·十娃子; traditional Chinese: 雅斯爾·十娃子; pinyin: Yǎsī'ěr Shíwázi, Xiao'erjing: يَاصِعَر شِوَذِ; Kyrgyz: Ясыр Шиваза, Yasır Şivaza, ياسىر شىۋازا; Russian: Ясыр Джумазович Шиваза, Jasyr Džumazovič Šivaza) (18 May 1906 – 18 June 1988) was a Soviet Dungan poet, writer, editor, and scholar.

The writer's name was spelled Jasƅr Şƅvazƅ in the Latin-based Dungan alphabet that was in use in 1932-53, and Ясыр Шывазы in the modern Cyrillic Dungan alphabet. According to Rimsky-Korsakoff (1991), his family name, Shivazy (Шывазы), has the meaning ‘the tenth child’; the expression could be written in Chinese as 十娃子 (Shiwazi). This kind of three-syllable family name is common among the Dungan people of the former Soviet Union.

Iasyr Shivaza was born on May 18, 1906 in the village of Sokuluk (Dungan: Сохўлў; Russian: Сокулук) some 30 km west of Bishkek, in what today is the Chuy Province of Kyrgyzstan. His parents and grandparents were born in China's Shaanxi province, and came to Kyrgyzstan (at the time, part of Russian Empire) from the Ili region in the early 1880s, after the defeat of the Dungan Rebellion and the return of the Yining (Kulja) area to China.

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