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[edit] AD vs. CE

The manual of style doesn't say anything about not using AD, or BC instead of the more modern but less standard BCE and CE. If people object to its use could they let me know what there objections are? If they are good enough we can leave it like this, otherwise I shall change the dates back to AD and BC.--Erkin2008 00:46, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uyghur Medicine

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Tartar scholar, professor Rashid Rahmeti Arat in Zur Heilkunde der Uighuren (Medical Practices of the Uygurs) published in 1930 and 1932, in Berlin, discussed the Uygur medicine. Relying on a sketch of a man with an explanation of acupuncture, he and some Western scholars suspect that acupuncture was not a Chinese, but a Uygur discovery.

has recently been deleted, does anybody know why? Is it not wikipedia quality content, or is it simply not accurate?

I'm not sure, but I added it again.--if somebody wants they can take it off--Erkin2008 20:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uygurs Able to Conquer Tang China??

I just noticed this sentence: " After the Battle of Talas, although they could have conquered the Tang Empire, they choose instead to use an exploitative trade policy to drain off the wealth of China without actually destroying it." The Uygur's having been able to conquer Tang or not is a matter of conjecture and doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. Perhaps something like the following would be better: "After the Battle of Talas, rather than attempting to conquer the Tang Empire, they choose, instead, to employ an exploitative trade policy to siphon off wealth from China without exhausting their own resources or risking corrupting their own culture." Whaddaya think? Doc Rock 14:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It's uncofitably long, or what?--86.29.245.58 01:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Real Figure for number of Uyghurs?

The inital paragraph begins with the census figures from the PRC from 2004 and then goes on to state that some have placed the figure at 15 000 000. Following the link (to an uncreditable source) nowhere does it mention this figure.

Matttthac 25/1/2007

[edit] Lets stay focused

I think this sentence is factually incorrect, speculative, and awkward.

"The forebear of the Tura belonged to those of Hun (Xiongnu) descendants. According to Chinese Turkic scholars Ma Changshou and Cen Zhongmian, the Chinese word Tiele originates from the Turkic Türkler(Turks) which is a plural form of Türk(Turk) and the word Tujue in Chinese comes from the Turkic word Türküt which is a singular of Türk [2]."

on a factual basis I object to the trend of misclassifying Tiele as another type of Turkut: 1) the Tiele are matrilineal and the Turkut are patrilinial 2) the Tiele were in constant revolt against the Turkut since the fifth century 3) The Turkut are Hun descendents whereas the Tiele inherited the Yenisi Culture 4) In their own history the Turkut differentiate between themselves and the Tiele in the west

on a stylistic basis I think this kind of disscussion should be in an etymology section of an article about the turkut, and not in an article about the uyghurs, its really off topic. --72.54.71.57 15:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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