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From 1994 to 2008, each year has seen about 3,000 more mixed race marriages in Shanghai than the previous year. [3] This has caused a major shift in China's attitudes to race and to Chinese children of mixed race heritage, because of globalization. [4] [1] [5] [6]
Claims about "race" being based in science and physiological differences were introduced to China by Europeans. [2]: 59 The idea of East Asian people belonging to a single "yellow race" was invented by European scientists in the 1700s and later introduced to China.
[11] [non-primary source needed] It is slightly different from the word Hanzu (Chinese: 漢族; pinyin: Hànzú; Wade–Giles: Han 4-tsu 2), 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 ...
Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic (2nd ed.). Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 0-674-59497-5. (1st edition appeared in 1991) Lipman, Jonathan Neaman (1997). Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-029-597-644-0
Han chauvinism, the belief in the superiority of the Han Chinese people and culture to others within the Republic and People's Republic of China; Sinocentrism, the belief in the superiority of Han Chinese people and culture to others throughout the world; Anti-Manchuism, the historical animus against the race of the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty
Besides the Han Chinese majority, 55 other ethnic (minority) groups are categorized in present-day China, numbering approximately 105 million people (8%), mostly concentrated in the bordering northwest, north, northeast, south and southwest but with some in central interior areas.
The word is made up of two Chinese morphemes, 白 (pinyin: bái, "white") and 左 (pinyin: zuǒ, "left"). [1] Although the word is most commonly used in its literal sense, it can also be used to mean idiotic or morally naive liberals regardless of ethnicity. [2] It is believed that the word came from China's netizens. [2]
Some historical Chinese characters for non-Han peoples were graphically pejorative ethnic slurs, where the racial insult derived not from the Chinese word but from the character used to write it. For instance, written Chinese first transcribed the name Yáo "the Yao people (in southwest China and Vietnam)" with the character for yáo 猺 ...