Uigur, uygur, uighur, weiwuer, uyghur? ----------------------------------------------- From: http://www.uyghurinfo.com/media_advisory.html "The Uyghur Information Agency (UIA) would like to advise the international media to adopt the correct Uyghur terms and names when it covers and writes issues related to the Uyghur people and Eastern Turkestan. First of all, we advise all the international media to use the correct spelling of our ethnic name--Uyghur. ... Second of all, we advise the international media to use the correct Chinese designation for Eastern Turkestan--"Xinjiang". ... Its official Chinese name is "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" or "XUAR". ..." Advise: don't use just xinjiang, because this means "new territory", nothing more. Use at least xinjiang uyghur. Macau --------
From the US State Department: http://www.state.gov/www/regions/dependencies.html "Under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau signed in 1987, Macau reverted to Chinese control on December 20, 1999. It is now a semi-autonomous entity that exists pursuant to international agreement and maintains its own government apart from the People's Republic of China."
Oscar van Vlijmen 2001-12-20
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:41:24 +0100 From: Oscar van Vlijmen <o.van.vlijmen@tip.nl>
Advise: don't use just xinjiang, because this means "new territory", nothing more. Use at least xinjiang uyghur.
OK, thanks. "Xinjiang Uyghur" it will be. I'll omit the "Autonomous Region" bit, as space is tight. (After all, how many people insist on "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" instead of plain "Pennsylvania"? :-)
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