China Proper

China proper English Proper noun en China proper. en 1769 w:Tobias Smollett CHINA The Present State of All Nations: Containing a Geographical, Natural, Commercial, and Political History of All the Countries in the Known World https://books.google.com/books?id=fFg9AAAAYAAJ London the Seventh 836514991 53 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Present_State_of_All_Nations/fFg9AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&pg=PA53 In China Proper, there are few high mountains ; but in Chineſian or Eaſt-Tartary, north of the great wall, there are many, as we have already remarked. en 1785 William Frederick Martyn CHINA The Geographical Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=6CUu3e_eCoUC London I 1205318155 513 https://www.google.com/books/edition/THE_Geographical_Magazine_OR_A_NEW_COPIO/6CUu3e_eCoUC?hl=en&pg=PA513 This country is divided into ſixteen provinces, fifteen of which lie within the great wall, and the other without.[...]Such are the boundaries and divisions of China Proper, from the most authentic accounts ;[...] en 1901 Chambers's Encyclopaedia https://books.google.com/books?id=iqwrAAAAYAAJ 184 https://books.google.com/books?id=iqwrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA184 1 CHINA PROPER was divided in the K'ang-hsî reign (1662-1722) into eighteen provinces ; from 1887 to 1895, when it was ceded to Japan, Formosa, detached from Fû-chien, was a separate province under the name of T'âi-wan ; en https://archive.org/details/chinaproper0001grea/mode 1944 China Proper Volume I: Physical Geography, History and Peoples Naval Intelligence Division 2 https://archive.org/details/chinaproper0001grea/page/2/ The flow of Chinese emigrants northwards into the unoccupied spaces of Manchuria, destined in the ‘ twenties ’ of the present century to become a mighty flood, had already begun, and in 1907 (four years before the Revolution which drove the Manchus from the throne, abolished the Imperial regime and substituted the Republic of China) Manchuria was incorporated in China Proper. en 1979 Donald H. McMillen Military Policies,1949-66 Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist0000mcmi/ w:Westview Press 0-89158-452-8 78-24645 470949538 107 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist0000mcmi/page/107/ Top priority was placed on military preparedness, troop strength was continuously built up, the settlement of Han from China Proper was intensified, a new highway and railroad network was completed within Xinjiang and between Urumqi and Lanzhou by 1961, and emphasis was placed on economic development and modernization. en 2011 M. Rayila The Pain of a Nation: The Invisibility of Uyghurs in China Proper Equal Rights Review https://web.archive.org/web/20110602195611/https://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/ERR06_Rayila_article.pdf 2 June 2011 Six Equal Rights Trust 1757-1650 751500158 45 In a speech given during the National City Ethnic Work Forum in September 2008, Professor Ma Rong stated that the number of Uyghurs living in China Proper had increased seven times during the period from 1982 to 2000, reaching a total of 53,771. en 2021-02-24 Ugyen Tenzin; Richard Finney Tenzin Dickyi Report: Chinese Development in Tibet Meets State Needs, Fails Tibetans https://web.archive.org/web/20210225023638/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/develop-02242021203018.html 25 February 2021 w:Radio Free Asia China’s development policies in Tibet are designed “to assimilate the region and its people into the framework of a single Chinese national identity rather than to meaningfully improve the lives of Tibetans,” TCHRD says in its report, pointing to the widespread forced removal of Tibetan herders from traditional grazing grounds.“Because China’s development policy has succeeded in urbanizing rural Tibetans and erasing their land rights, it has succeeded in creating pristine wilderness through depopulation, sinicizing economic centres in towns and cities ensuring investments and profits flow back to China Proper,” the rights group says. en