Chinese people in Germany eventually achieved what one scholar described as a "meagre victory": a retraction by "Bild-Zeitung". However, the success of the protests laid some foundation for further professional cooperation among Chinese restaurateurs. Germany also boasts a small number of Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority of China who live in the Xinjiang region in northwest China; they form one of the few obvious communities of Chinese national minorities in Europe. Though they are Chinese citizens or formerly held Chinese citizenship, their ethnic and political identity is defined largely by opposition to China, and for the most part they do not consider themselves part
Kui (Chinese mythology) Kui (Chinese mythology) Kui () is a polysemous figure in ancient Chinese mythology. Classic texts use this name for the legendary musician Kui who invented music and dancing; for the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god Kui variously said to resemble a Chinese dragon, a drum, or a monkey with a human face; and for the Kuiniu wild yak or buffalo. While Kui 夔 originally named a mythic being, Modern Standard Chinese uses it in several other expressions. The reduplication "kuikui" 夔夔 means "awe-struck; fearful; grave" (see the "Shujing" below). The compounds "kuilong" 夔龍 (with "dragon") and "kuiwen" 夔紋 (with "pattern;