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    The Han-Chinese Conflict

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    the Uighurs and Han Chinese. This conflict has been occurring within the Xinjiang region for many years now. The Xinjiang region is located within China in the upper west side of the state. In 1775 the Qing dynasty had a region of various Turkic, Mongol, and Chinese groups under control. The Xinjiang Province became the first establishment of the Chinese Imperial in 1884. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 the Xinjiang province was ruled by the Uighur group known as the East Turkestan Islamic

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    My origin is from Urumqi, Xinjiang. That’s a really big state there, but the population there are very small. There are many mountains on the border, most of them are high, full of snow and glacier. Every visitor said they really like the food there. There are many kinds of food in Xinjiang, and they are really tasty, naan, mixing noodles, baked samosa, Saute Spicy Chicken. I like these food and they have good reputation, people from China all want to go to Xinjiang to try the food there. We don’t

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    people around the world are not able to do the things that we can do here. Some of them are treated differently because of where they are from, or because of what they believe in. Some of the places that are undergoing regional conflicts are the Xinjiang territory, Chechnya, and the province of Quebec. These problems have been taking place for a very longtime. These issues could have been resolved, but haven’t for many different reasons. All three of these countries have faces similar problems for

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    Iranian. Geographically, all of them dwell in the northwest of China for hundreds of years. Therefore, most Muslims are distanced and isolated from the Han (Manger 107). Their hostility towards the Chinese started when large waves of Han migrated into Xinjiang, where 99% of

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    settlement complex ever discovered in central Xinjiang during this time period. At its height, MGK likely served as a regional center habituated by hundreds of people. This project has the potential to usher in a long-term research project at MGK. In sum, this research will 1) be one of the first scientific investigation of an early irrigation system in Central Asia; 2) initiate long-term research at MGK, a rare archaeological site complex in central Xinjiang. Personal Qualifications My experience of

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    for the upper west region of Ghana PGAN = 1.3885x + 17.317 (9) where PGAN is the mean monthly precipitation for the Gansu Province of China PXIN = -0.4685x + 10.212 (10) where PXIN is the mean monthly precipitation for the Xinjiang province of China; and x is the month in which the average precipitation occurred.

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    region of Xinjiang, an area that used to be populated with over 95% Muslim Turkic-speaking residents known as the “Uyghurs”. Though the Uyghurs speak and practice their own language and culture, they are politically citizens of the PRC and the use of terms such as “Han” and “Uyghur” people, are only used as constructions to generalize groups that are contradictory. With migration of Han Chinese flowing into this area and conductive extraction of rich natural resources, the state of Xinjiang has become

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    Climate Comparison Essay

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    analysis on the climatic conditions of the two locations, the farming systems and socio-cultural settings to identify similarities and differences. The climate variability of the environments of the two locations selected are: China, Gansu Province and Xinjiang Province on one side and Ghana, Upper West Region and Upper East Region. These sites respectively represent relatively marginal conditions for arid and semi-arid lands. The semi-arid Gansu Province (36.0596° N, 103.8264° E) is one of the poorest

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    Muslim ethnic group is found the predominantly muslim province of Xinjiang, in the far eastern part of China (refer to Appendix A, Figure 1). They are of Turkic descendancy, speak a language that is largely related to Turkish and regard themselves to be very culturally and ethnically close to neighbouring Central Asian populations. This is where controversy begins to occur. Prior to the 18th century, the region that’s now Xinjiang had an intermittent autonomy and periodic independence. However, during

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    People’s Republic of China is not only a country with five thousand years history, but with various geographic physical features as well. As the third biggest country in the world, with an area of about 9,600,000 km2 (3,700,000 sq mi), China stretches five time zones in East Asian landmass with more than 1.35 billion inhabitants. Generally, China is high in the west and descends to the east, devided into three stages, so most rivers flow west-east. In this paper, we experience the different environment

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