Chiang Kai-shek considered both the Han Chinese and all the minority peoples of China, the Five Races Under One Union, as descendants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and belonging to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China.

* Dong people ( 侗族 ), an ethnic minority group in China

The Kuomintang considers all minorities to be members of the Chinese Nation, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang party leader, considered all the minority peoples of China, including the Hui, as descedants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation.

The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

The modern-day minority of Mongolic-speaking Daurs in China are their direct descendants based on DNA evidence.

The Qing Dynasty was founded not by the Han Chinese who form the majority of the Chinese population, but the Manchus, who are today an ethnic minority of China.

The book was roundly criticized in China for its reliance on unpublished interviews and for its negative portrayal of a Chinese ethnic minority, although senior party historians have corroborated some allegations of cannibalism.

The Cultural Revolution wreaked much havoc on minority cultures in China.

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

About three million people, half of them Jurchens, migrated south into northern China over two decades, and this minority governed about thirty million people.

Since 1949, Miao has been an official term for one of the 55 official minority groups recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China.

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

Han predominate demographically and politically in most areas of China, although less so in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang ( East Turkestan ), where the Han are in the minority.

Language reforms initiated in the Republic of China in the late 1930s and 1940s and continued in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s replaced " dog radical " ethnonyms of minority peoples with more positive characters.

The word " Fān " was formerly used by the Chinese almost innocently in the sense of ' aborigines ' to refer to ethnic groups in South China, and Mao Zedong himself once used it in 1938 in a speech advocating equal rights for the various minority peoples.

The Lao language is descended from Tai languages spoken in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam ( probably by some of the various peoples referred to as the Baiyue ) in areas believed to be the homeland of the language family and where several related languages are still spoken by scattered minority groups.

The dozens of ethnic minority groups of the country of China have their own languages and their own folk lore, and many have their own writing: much of which writing contains valuable historical and cultural information as well as many unique myths.

Meanwhile, Hu kept a tight lid on China politically, cracking down on social disturbances, ethnic minority protests, and dissident figures.

The People's Republic of China ( PRC ) officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups within China in addition to the Han majority.

As of 2010, the combined population of officially recognised minority groups comprised 8. 49 % of the population of mainland China.

The Tujia ( Tujia: Bizika ; Chinese: 土家族 ; pinyin: Tǔjiāzú ), with a total population of over 8 million, is the 6th largest ethnic minority in People's Republic of China.

Having gained control of China, Chiang's party remained surrounded by " surrendered " warlords who remained relatively autonomous within their own regions.

However unlike China, there was no real systemic continuity from the western Roman Empire to its German successor which famously was " not holy, not Roman, and not an empire ", and numerous small states existed in variously autonomous confederation.

In December, Imperial General Headquarters, a structure completely autonomous from the elected government, ordered its forces in China to drive toward Nanking, the Chinese capital.

The Hui people live predominantly in the Ningxia autonomous region of China.

Tibetans live in the Tibet autonomous region, Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Gansu and Northern Yunnan provinces in China and in Ladakh in the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India, while Manipuris, Mizo, Naga, Tripuri, Idu Mishmis, and Garo live in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya states of India.

Ferry services operate regular routes to many ports in China and Asia, as well as the autonomous communities and cities of the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla.

At its western end is the Aksai Chin region, an area the size of Switzerland, that sits between the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang and Tibet ( which China declared as an autonomous region in 1965 ).

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The Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ), Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region (; ) is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

Inner Mongolia ( Mongolian:, Öbür Monggol and, Övör Mongol ;, but officially romanized to Nei Mongol ) is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country.

Mengjiang was an autonomous area of Reorganized National Government of China, which was a puppet regime of Japan.

China has five 自治区 ( zìzhìqū ) and two 特別行政區 ( or 特别行政区 ; tèbiéxíngzhèngqū ), which are translated as " autonomous region " and " special administrative region ", respectively.

In June 2006, satellite imagery on the Google Earth service revealed a 1: 500 scale terrain model of eastern Aksai Chin and adjacent Tibet, built near the town of Huangyangtan, about southwest of Yinchuan, the capital of the autonomous region of Ningxia in China.

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast ;, yidishe avtonome gegnt ) is a federal subject of Russia ( an autonomous oblast ) situated in the Russian Far East, bordering with Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of China.

Provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across China were ordered to build hundreds of new printing houses to publish the Quotations during the second half of 1966 which pushed the limits of the Chinese printing industry.

The name " Outer Mongolia " is contrasted with Inner Mongolia ( Dotugadu monggol, Дотоод Монгол, Dotood Mongol, ), an autonomous region of China.

Major changes since then have been the reorganization of provinces in the northeast after the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the formation of autonomous regions, based on Soviet ethnic policies.

The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5. 2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China.

Ningxia, formerly transliterated as Ninghsia, is an autonomous region ( Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ( NHAR )) of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest part of the country.

Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but, in 1958, broke off from Gansu and was reconstituted as an autonomous region for the Hui people, one of the 56 officially recognised nationalities of China.

In 1958, Ningxia formally became an autonomous region of China.

In September 1931, Japan, a member of the League of Nations, invaded Manchuria, an autonomous region claimed by China.

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