# China Proper
## English
### Proper noun

China Proper
* Alternative form of China proper
** 1769, Tobias Smollett, “CHINA”, in The Present State of All Nations: Containing a Geographical, Natural, Commercial, and Political History of All the Countries in the Known World‎, volume the Seventh, London, →OCLC, page 53:In China Proper, there are few high mountains ; but in Chineſian or Eaſt-Tartary, north of the great wall, there are many, as we have already remarked.
** 1785, William Frederick Martyn, “CHINA”, in The Geographical Magazine‎, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 513:This country is divided into ſixteen provinces, fifteen of which lie within the great wall, and the other without.[...]Such are the boundaries and divisions of China Proper, from the most authentic accounts ;[...]
** 1901, Chambers's Encyclopaedia‎, page 184, column 1:CHINA PROPER was divided in the K'ang-hsî reign (1662-1722) into eighteen provinces ; from 1887 to 1895, when it was ceded to Japan, Formosa, detached from Fû-chien, was a separate province under the name of T'âi-wan ; […]
** 1944, China Proper‎, Volume I: Physical Geography, History and Peoples, Naval Intelligence Division, page 2:The flow of Chinese emigrants northwards into the unoccupied spaces of Manchuria, destined in the ‘ twenties ’ of the present century to become a mighty flood, had already begun, and in 1907 (four years before the Revolution which drove the Manchus from the throne, abolished the Imperial regime and substituted the Republic of China) Manchuria was incorporated in China Proper.
** 1979, Donald H. McMillen, “Military Policies,1949-66”, in Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:Top priority was placed on military preparedness, troop strength was continuously built up, the settlement of Han from China Proper was intensified, a new highway and railroad network was completed within Xinjiang and between Urumqi and Lanzhou by 1961, and emphasis was placed on economic development and modernization.
** 2011, M. Rayila, “The Pain of a Nation: The Invisibility of Uyghurs in China Proper”, in Equal Rights Review‎, volume Six, Equal Rights Trust, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 June 2011, page 45:In a speech given during the National City Ethnic Work Forum in September 2008, Professor Ma Rong stated that the number of Uyghurs living in China Proper had increased seven times during the period from 1982 to 2000, reaching a total of 53,771.
** 2021 February 24, Ugyen Tenzin, Richard Finney., “Report: Chinese Development in Tibet Meets State Needs, Fails Tibetans”, in Tenzin Dickyi, transl., Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on 25 February 2021:China’s development policies in Tibet are designed “to assimilate the region and its people into the framework of a single Chinese national identity rather than to meaningfully improve the lives of Tibetans,” TCHRD says in its report, pointing to the widespread forced removal of Tibetan herders from traditional grazing grounds. “Because China’s development policy has succeeded in urbanizing rural Tibetans and erasing their land rights, it has succeeded in creating pristine wilderness through depopulation, sinicizing economic centres in towns and cities ensuring investments and profits flow back to China Proper,” the rights group says.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:China Proper.