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The term exists to emphasize that pro-unification groups are not opposed to the development of a Taiwanese identity or local symbols such as language, but are opposed to viewing such an identity and symbols as separate from a broader Chinese identity. The Shan Drug-lord Khun Sa of Myanmar is also an example of desinicization; he belongs to the second generation of Kuomintang officers who sought refuge in the Shan State . Many Taiwanese Localization Movement supporters in Taiwan also take recent Seoul city mayor's move to change Seoul city's Chinese official name from 漢城 (read as Hancheng in Chinese , Hanseong in Korean ) to Shou'er (首爾) in 2005 as a model of desinicization. The Dungan s of Kyrgyzstan represent a less conscious process of desinicization, in the course of which (300 years since early Qing ) a Hui population became alienated from the literary tradition and local culture of Shaanxi and Gansu . The notion of desinicization has also been applied to '' (i.e. yellow on the outside, white on the inside.) |
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