I want a second opinion!

Posted on 4/22/2005 by Curzon

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.

About Curzon

Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (1859 - 1925) entered the British House of Commons as a Conservative MP in 1886, where he served as undersecretary of India and Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Viceroy of India at the turn of the 20th century where he delineated the North West Frontier Province, ordered a military expedition to Tibet, and unsuccessfully tried to partition the province of Bengal during his six-year tenure. Curzon served as Leader of the House of Lords in Prime Minister Lloyd George's War Cabinet and became Foreign Secretary in January 1919, where his most famous act was the drawing of the Curzon Line between a new Polish state and Russia. His publications include Russia in Central Asia (1889) and Persia and the Persian Question (1892). In real life, "Curzon" is a US citizen from the East Coast who has been a financial analyst, freelance translator, and university professor; he is currently on assignment in Tokyo.
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5 Responses to I want a second opinion!

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  2. Nathan says:
    4/22/2005 at 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.

  3. Curzon says:
    4/22/2005 at 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!

  4. Nathan says:
    4/22/2005 at 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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