Han Chinese

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of Han Chinese.
   alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
2. The largest ethnic group native to China.
   plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Lueyang county is a mountainous county located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi'an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population—about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese, who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate⟳ to other places.”

“After an absence of over a millennium, Hàn Chinese are reasserting control⟳ over the Silk Routes with a ruthlessness that the Wǔdì emperor (reigned 141–87 b.c.)—the first ruler to control⟳ the Silk Routes—would have⟳ envied.”

“We know⟳ much about the Hàn Chinese because of their custom of burying with their dead an abundance of personal goods, domestic articles, and little ceramic models portraying daily life.”

“I am conscious, while writing this section of the essay, that at this very moment the Hàn Chinese are waging genocide against Muslims in Turkestan, which the colonizing Hàn call⟳ Xīn Jiāng 新疆 (Xīnjiāng) (lit. new frontier) in their version of “Manifest Destiny” (Dillon 2005, 3–4; Perdue 2005).”

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