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
Fish in Chinese mythology They are quite capable of swimming upstream and leaping over barriers in the water. Related to fish, some Chinese mythological motifs involve fishermen or fish baskets or a fish trap. According to Chinese myth, the culture hero Fuxi invented fishing, after the Great Flood (Eberhard, 1983:107). A story tells that first Fuxi fished with his hands, but after observing a spider catching insects in its web, he invented the rattan net and used it to catch fish, which skill he passed on to his descendents (Yang, 2005: 120). Jiang Ziya, the great general and strategist and military mastermind who was