10.2003 - Source: UK Home Office

Uzbeks ("Country Report - October 2003") [#49232],  [ID 4420]

"6.257. The Uzbeks are a Turkic people, found in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). They number 14,000 and are representative of many central Asian peoples found in the extreme west of China, such as the Kazakhs, Tajiks, and Kirgizs. [16w]

6.258. Please note that "guo shan" simply means "hill people" and the phrase does not refer to an ethnic grouping as an identifiable tribe. Sources appear to indicate that the only time when "guo shan" or variants is of use, is in Taiwan, where the phrase is used by the Chinese population to describe the original indigenous peoples of Taiwan. The Gaoshan (alt. Kaoshan) of Taiwan are ethnically a historical mix of Indonesian and early Chinese peoples in an agriculturist village-based society. [16ac]"

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