The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon.

Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international o

The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the g

Studies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.

This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of econ