- 25 Dec 2019 15:08
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While I have asserted in various occasion that the Chinese do not deserve sovereignty over anywhere (i.e. they should be conquered and ruled by races better at state administration), the above statement is at least partially untrue.
The place called East Turkestan by some (and to be referred as "this area" for the rest of this post) had been under Chinese influence, suzerainty or even direct governance in at least four occasions. The current state is the extension of the fourth one.
Occasion 1: Sporadically during the Han Dynasty, specifically in the two centuries around Jesus Christ (i.e. circa 100 BCE to 100 CE). Some lesser control was also exerted over the subsequent centuries.
Occasion 2: In Tang Dynasty, for about one century before Battle of Talas in 751. It's alleged that Li Bai, one of the greatest Chinese poet, was born there during this Chinese control period.
Occasion 3: Western Liao Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, for a combined length of two centuries. This period is dominated by nomadic people around China but the rulers assert direct rule and adapted Chinese customs, as if they were Chinese. No doubt some people of Han ethnicity had been there as well. After this period, the regimes and states set up in the area are effectively Yuan (Mongol) remnants, which leads to ...
Occasion 4: The Qing Dynasty, having conquered Mongolia as well as China proper, tried to subdue the Mongol Khanates there. It took them two centuries to complete the conquest, and Uyghurs were considered more loyal subjects than another ethnicity of people called Zhungars, who were annihilated in the Qing conquest. The Qing Empire soon declined and its power effectively taken over by the Han Chinese by the 19th century. An official Lin Zexu, who's hailed as an anti-British hero nowadays, was exiled there after losing the Opium War, but the exile is seen nowadays as something less than a punishment, and his presence there was seen as instrumental in the Chinese preparation of keeping the area under its control.
In the 1930s, a Chinese warlord tried to turn over the area to the Soviet Union. Had he been successful, I guess the area would now be a country like Kazakhstan. Whether this is a good thing is up to one's opinion.
anasawad wrote:It never was Chinese, and it'll never be Chinese.
While I have asserted in various occasion that the Chinese do not deserve sovereignty over anywhere (i.e. they should be conquered and ruled by races better at state administration), the above statement is at least partially untrue.
The place called East Turkestan by some (and to be referred as "this area" for the rest of this post) had been under Chinese influence, suzerainty or even direct governance in at least four occasions. The current state is the extension of the fourth one.
Occasion 1: Sporadically during the Han Dynasty, specifically in the two centuries around Jesus Christ (i.e. circa 100 BCE to 100 CE). Some lesser control was also exerted over the subsequent centuries.
Occasion 2: In Tang Dynasty, for about one century before Battle of Talas in 751. It's alleged that Li Bai, one of the greatest Chinese poet, was born there during this Chinese control period.
Occasion 3: Western Liao Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, for a combined length of two centuries. This period is dominated by nomadic people around China but the rulers assert direct rule and adapted Chinese customs, as if they were Chinese. No doubt some people of Han ethnicity had been there as well. After this period, the regimes and states set up in the area are effectively Yuan (Mongol) remnants, which leads to ...
Occasion 4: The Qing Dynasty, having conquered Mongolia as well as China proper, tried to subdue the Mongol Khanates there. It took them two centuries to complete the conquest, and Uyghurs were considered more loyal subjects than another ethnicity of people called Zhungars, who were annihilated in the Qing conquest. The Qing Empire soon declined and its power effectively taken over by the Han Chinese by the 19th century. An official Lin Zexu, who's hailed as an anti-British hero nowadays, was exiled there after losing the Opium War, but the exile is seen nowadays as something less than a punishment, and his presence there was seen as instrumental in the Chinese preparation of keeping the area under its control.
In the 1930s, a Chinese warlord tried to turn over the area to the Soviet Union. Had he been successful, I guess the area would now be a country like Kazakhstan. Whether this is a good thing is up to one's opinion.
O Lord our God arise,
Scatter His enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God, save us all!
Scatter His enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God, save us all!