History rewrite
The annals of Chinese history will be rewritten to delete slurs against the country’s 55 ethnic minorities such as “barbaric tribes,” “savages,” or “aliens,” according to the official Xinhua news agency. A national symposium in Urumqi, in the north-west region of Xinjiang which is heavily populated by Muslims decided that such discriminatory references should be removed from local histories. China’s third 3 st minority, the seven on Muslim Huis, were called “the dog Huis” in chronicles written during the Ching dynasty, the report said. — Peking.
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Press, 5 October 1984, Page 29
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