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''Desinicization'' (, ''de'' + '' Sinicization '', meaning "to get rid of the Chinese influence") is a term which appeared in the political vocabulary of the Republic Of China on Taiwan in 2001 . It is mainly used by groups which support Chinese Reunification to describe what they are opposed to, and to distinguish it from the Taiwanese Localization Movement . 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. EXAMPLES IN MAINLAND CHINA During the Cultural Revolution , the Chinese communist government declared to destroy Four Olds , including "Old Custom, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas." Confucius was one of them during the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign. Many valuable Chinese antiques, paintings, Genealogy Books were forever destroyed. People are also forbidden to wroship their ancestors, have memorial ceremony for Confucius, Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor . In 2005, Kuomintang Went Back To Mainland China . The Mainland Chinese Government usually likes to add the word Chinese in front of everything from Taiwan, such as Chinese Taipei , etc. However, this time, the government called Kuomintang - Chinese Nationalist Party as a "Taiwan political party." Hence, to the Chinese government, the Chinese Nationalist Party is not a Chinese Political Parties . EXAMPLES IN TAIWAN In 2004, the map of "Republic of China" no longer includes Mainland China . The government also start to change many names related to Chinese in its textbooks. "Mainland" is offically called as China. In February 12th of 2007, Chen's government also changed the names of was changed to "CPC corporation, Taiwan. China Shipbuilding Corporation to "CSBC Corporation, Taiwan." The name changing issue will be a topic in the upcoming Republic of China presidential elections in Taiwan in March of 2008. Candidate and former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-Jeou has already promised to restore the printing of "Republic of China" on stamps if he is elected as the next President 1. EXAMPLES ELSEWHERE Some commentators also take the recent Seoul city mayor's move to change Seoul city's Chinese official name from ''Hancheng'' (漢城; Hànchéng) to Shou'er (首爾; Shǒuěr) in 2005 as a model of desinicization. The previous name, pronounced Hànchéng in Chinese and Hanseong in Korean , is an old name for Seoul , literally meaning '' Han River City'', but can be misinterpreted as '' Han Chinese City''. The new name Shou'er carried no such connotation, and was close in both sound and meaning to '' Seoul '', which, uniquely among Korean place names, does not have a Sino-Korean name. See also Seoul - Chinese Name . The Dungan s of Kyrgyzstan represent a less conscious process of desinicization, during which, over the course of a little more than a century (since the Hui Minorities' War ), a Hui Chinese population became alienated from the literary tradition and local culture of Shaanxi and Gansu . EXAMPLES THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK ARE DESINICIZATION Some Chinese Nationalists think that not following the Chinese government's viewpoints of Chinese culture and Chinese history is desinicization. Chiang Kai-shek was a former Republic Of China President and Kuomintang Party leader. Upon his death in the 1975, a newly built airport in Taoyuan was named after him. In Taiwan, KMT had the power to name something after him. However the CCP denied it. Ever since the airport was built, the CCP government and Mainland News Media renamed the airport to the "Taoyuan Airport," so as to not mention the name of Chiang Kai-Shek, Communist leader Mao Zedong 's arch nemesis. So for the last 30 years or so, the mainland Chinese never knew that there was an airport in Taiwan that was called "Chiang Kai-shek airport." The DPP - the ruling party of Taiwan changed this airport's name in 2007. The reason that CCP and DDP deny naming something after him is that they think Chiang is a tyrant. Some people say that is Desinicization; however it is more like the argument of Chinese history. Dr. Sun Yat-sen is called as the Pater Patriae , but some people questioned it and tried to stop calling him as Pater Patrise. Some people think stopping calling him as the Pater Patriae is Desinicization, but it is really an argument of Chinese history not Desinicization. REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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