The places where I used "Turkish" were in the material on the ZhouFishbellykanakaDude wrote: > You might want to refer to Turkic tribes, instead of
> Turkish tribes, when they are mentioned.
> The central asians don't much ken to being called "Turkish", while
> the Turks don't mind ANYONE being called Turkic (as they think
> that EVERYONE on the planet was at one point or another
> "Turkic"),.. though I'd ask around about that, so don't take my
> word for it.
dynasty sourced from Wolfram Eberhard's book A History of China. But
I've now changed it to "Turkic" in those places. Thanks for
the correction.
When the Manchus were running China, they knew how to govern anFishbellykanakaDude wrote: > The "solution"? Break China into the various "republics" that it's
> regions actually should be.
empire. The Chinese threw out the Manchus, and since then have been
completely incompetent to govern even a province, let alone a nation
or an empire, and have lurched from one disaster to another, with the
worst disaster yet to come. The absurd thing is that they can't
govern themselves, but they think they can govern the world -- in
Mandarin no less.