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
The Game of Chinese Chess The Game of Chinese Chess The Game of Chinese Chess or The Game of Chinese Checkers (French - "Le jeu d'échets chinois") is a drawing by the French artist François Boucher, showing an orientalised image of two people playing Xiangqi - actual Xiangqi pieces are all round, whereas the shapes of the pieces in the drawing are more varied. It is best known through the 39.4 by 27.7 cm engraving made after it by the Englishman John Ingram (1721 - c.1771; fl. 1763). It was part of a series of etchings he made of Boucher's chinoiserie subjects between 1741 and