Zhonghua minzu
Political term in modern Chinese nationalism / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zhonghua minzu (johng-HWA meen-tsoo[4][5][6]) is a political term in modern Chinese nationalism related to the concepts of nation-building, ethnicity, and race in the Chinese nationality.[7][8]
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Traditional Chinese | 中華民族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中华民族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Chinese nation[note 1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zhonghua minzu was established during the early Beiyang (1912–1927) and Nationalist (1928–1949) periods to include Han people and four major non-Han ethnic groups: the Manchus, Mongols, Hui, and Tibetans,[9][10] under the notion of a republic of five races (Wǔzú gònghé) advocated by Sun Yat-sen and the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party. It is slightly different from the word Hanzu (Chinese: 汉族), a word is only used to refer to the Han Chinese.
Zhonghua minzu was initially rejected in the People's Republic of China (PRC) but resurrected after the death of Mao Zedong to include Han Chinese alongside 55 other ethnic groups as a collective Chinese family.[4][7] Since the late 1980s, the most fundamental change of the PRC's nationalities and minorities policies is the renaming from Zhongguo renmin (中国人民; 'the Chinese people') to Zhonghua minzu (中华民族; 'the Chinese nation'), signalling a shift away from a multinational communist people's statehood of China to one multi-ethnic Chinese nation state with one single Chinese national identity.[8]