 Mixed Han-Uyghur partners were pressured to leave their parents and sometimes Xinjiang entirely.During the Republic era from 1911 to 1949, Han military generals were pursued and wooed by Uyghur women.In 1949 when the Communists took over, the Uyghur population branded such women as "milliy munapiq" (ethnic scum), threatening and coercing them in accompanying their Han partners in moving to Taiwan and "China proper."