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April 22nd, 2005

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I want a second opinion!

Some weren’t happy with my last map on the ethno-linguistic borders of China, so here’s another take from a different source.

Click here for the full-size image.

Either way, Jing’s comment in the previous post is most valid.

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Simon World
April 22, 2005
9:55 am
Daily linklets 22nd April

The links between China's internet firewall, English language teaching and debate. An interesting post saying China's encouragement of English could undermine its firewall. French cooking: see fire, add fuel. It is a move to shore up France's geopo...
Nathan
April 22, 2005
3:27 pm
More accurate, but pisses me off more. I'm not the least bit happy with the rise of Mandarin and the growth of the Han population in East Turkestan.

There are all kinds of fun tiny Turkic lanaguages spoken in the deserts and mountains in that neck of the woods in addition to Kazakh, Uighur, and Kyrgyz.
Curzon
April 22, 2005
3:39 pm
I'm not the least bit happy with the rise of Mandarin and the growth of the Han population in East Turkestan.

And you're a honky in Philly! How do you think the natives feel! (You can imagine, no doubt). To quote my Uyghur guide, said in measured frustration: "As you can imagine, it creates a lot of problems here."

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CLARIFICATION: How do you think the natives [in western China] feel!
Nathan
April 22, 2005
4:26 pm
There are natives in Philadelphia?

It'd be one thing if the rise of the Han population was in some sense "natural" (something along the lines of free people moving somewhere to take advantage of some opportunity) rather than fueled by Han desires to secure an on-again, off-again territory by outbreeding the natives.
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April 22, 2005
4:51 pm
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