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A young soldier pointed an automatic rifle at me and said in Chinese, 'This is made to kill you, Ahlos [a sinicized form of the Tibetan word for ‘friend', used by some Chinese as a derogatory term for Tibetans].
YubaNet.com 2008
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As much as everything foreign in China is instantly sinicized, Chinese culture is also capable of endless permutations and mixing.
Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power 2010
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And what happened when these peoples were sinicized?
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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They spoke their own language among themselves, and they spoke Chinese to the Han people. 137 The Bai people certainly were the most sinicized ethnic group in Yunnan.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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According to Yu Yingshi, only relatively sinicized "barbarians" would be put under the junxian system,3 therefore, the Han considered the Southwestern Barbarians who were put under this system to be relatively civilized.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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The most sinicized ethnic group was the Bai, and the most sinicized class was the native elites.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Note 232: During the Qing period, Lin'an was further sinicized.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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As much as everything foreign in China is instantly sinicized, Chinese culture is also capable of endless permutations and mixing.
Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power 2010
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Although many Han were indigenized as before, ethnic peoples were greatly sinicized in an observable way.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Those who are not yet thoroughly sinicized, those who have not yet partaken of that civilization, have been regarded by the Chinese down through the centuries as simply less civilized.
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