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To: Clint Williams

So, please tell me. Is “Weiguang Li” Uighur or Han? And what, pray tell, is the difference?


20 posted on 08/01/2008 8:13:36 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer

Han are the majority Chinese group. Uighur are the Chinese Muslims.


25 posted on 08/01/2008 8:18:53 AM PDT by twigs
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To: lady lawyer

Li is the most common surname in the world and the Han make up 92 percent of China’s population. So Li is almost certainly Han.


31 posted on 08/01/2008 8:21:03 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: lady lawyer

Uighurs are (predominantly) Muslim. The name sounds Han.


38 posted on 08/01/2008 8:26:39 AM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters | Impeach Obama!)
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To: lady lawyer

WeiGuangLi would be a Han name, but it doesn’t really tell all.

Uighurs mostly live in the Xinjiang Autonomous region in the far west bordering Kazakhstan . . . . Muslim backgrounds. There is a Muslim separatist movement there that the Chinese have to continuously keep in check.


43 posted on 08/01/2008 8:54:08 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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