John Cowan responded:
> > Like the
> > United States today, China has long been a cosmopolitan
> > mixture of many peoples, and many of the conquering minorities
>
> Eh? Do you mean the Mongols and Manchu specifically?
Not so much, although I suppose many of them "sinified"
over the centuries.
Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
> Like the
> United States today, China has long been a cosmopolitan
> mixture of many peoples, and many of the conquering minorities
Eh? Do you mean the Mongols and Manchu specifically?
> Han4ren2, literally "Han person", is either a somewhat
> old-fashioned, somewh
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Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
> Or "Hanyu", in fact, which is the normal name for "Mandarin" in Mandarin.
I believe, however, that this term is relatively recent in its current
sense, and is part of the effort the PRC government makes to distinguish
between "zhongguo" as a political term and "han" a
At 3:46 PM -0400 6/4/01, Jungshik Shin wrote:
>On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Ayers, Mike wrote:
>
>> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>> > For the Han characters, I have found in the past that people
>> > whose native
>> > language does not use these characters usually refer to th
At 1:18 AM -0400 6/5/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 2001-06-04 12:32:28 Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> I think the problem that Doug might be suggesting (correct me if I'm
>> wrong, Doug) is that "Chinese" is also the name of a language(s). The
>> t
At 9:21 AM -0700 5/30/01, Carl W. Brown wrote:
>Sorry,
>
>Han or Hanzi is not adequate to cover Korean. If you want to get
>picky I am sure that most people are aware that there are Chinese
>minority languages for example that use other fonts. Typically the
>term CJK works for most of us. Th
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