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China officially People's Republic of China Country, eastern Asia. Area: 3,696,100 sq mi (9,572,900 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 1,304,369,000. Capital: Beijing. It is the world's most populous country, the Han (ethnic Chinese) forming more than nine-tenths of the population.
The name "Han" was derived from the Han River, an upper tributary of the Yangtze River. It was further strengthened by the famous Han Empire (206 BC–220 AD) which lasted for several hundred years when the people began active interactions with the outside world.
For Liang and Bluntschli, it was clear that any nation-state required one core ethnicity to guide and dominate other smaller ethnicities. This idea fitted into Liang's imagination of the Chinese nation-state and the role the Chinese people had in this state. They were the gold and silver forming the main part of the coin, that is, the nation-state, whereas the non-Chinese people were the less valuable metals needed to complete this coin. (p. 85); Non-Chinese people, mainly Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, and Turkic Muslims, (Uyghurs), have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities. (Preface)
五族, n., the Five Races: 漢，滿，蒙，回，藏 Chinese, Manchus, Mongolians, Mohammedans and Tibetans. (p. 458); 漢人, n., the Chinese people. (p. 1016)
The name "Han" was derived from the Han River, an upper tributary of the Yangtze River. It was further strengthened by the famous Han Empire (206 BC–220 AD) which lasted for several hundred years when the people began active interactions with the outside world.
For Liang and Bluntschli, it was clear that any nation-state required one core ethnicity to guide and dominate other smaller ethnicities. This idea fitted into Liang's imagination of the Chinese nation-state and the role the Chinese people had in this state. They were the gold and silver forming the main part of the coin, that is, the nation-state, whereas the non-Chinese people were the less valuable metals needed to complete this coin. (p. 85); Non-Chinese people, mainly Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, and Turkic Muslims, (Uyghurs), have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities. (Preface)
五族, n., the Five Races: 漢，滿，蒙，回，藏 Chinese, Manchus, Mongolians, Mohammedans and Tibetans. (p. 458); 漢人, n., the Chinese people. (p. 1016)
