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  • Just one example: so English has no word for Han, huaren, tangren, etc.

    Daily Links, April 16, 2009 Michael Turton 2009

  • The problem is that when speaking in English we don't usually differentiate between Han, huaren, zhonguo minzu, zhonguo ren.

    Daily Links, April 16, 2009 Michael Turton 2009

  • Man Shu mentions that the tribe in northeast Yunnan, called Shangren, were originally Han people (ben hanren ye) .30 Tong Dian mentions that local peoples either included many Han Chinese (huaren) 31 or regarded themselves as descendants of the Han (ziyun qixian ben hanren) .32 In 1074, when Yang Zuo volunteered to travel into Yunnan to purchase horses, he met an old woman who stated that she had moved from Sichuan over two decades before, fleeing famine.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

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