Unrecognized ethnic groups in China
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Undistinguished nationalities)
Several ethnic groups of the People's Republic of China are not officially recognized. Taken together, these groups (未识别民族 wèi shíbié mínzú) number more than 730,000 people; if considered a single group, they would constitute the twentieth most populous ethnic group of China. There are in addition small distinct ethnic groups that have been classified as part of larger ethnic groups that are officially recognized.
Completely unrecognized ethnic groups include:
- Bajia (八甲人)
- Lai (萊人)
- Deng (僜人)
- Gejia (革家人)
- Khmu[1] (克木人)
- Macanese[2] (土生葡人, people of mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry in Macau; Eurasians)
- Mang[3] (芒人)
- Jews[4] (犹太, Youtai)
- Eurasians in Hong Kong
- Yamato Japanese (大和民族) in Dalian
- Ryukyuans (琉球民族) in Taiwan
Ethnic groups that have been subsumed under the official list of 56 recognized ethnic groups:
- Akha people - officially a branch of Hani people
- Aynu/Ani of China - officially classified as Uyghurs
- Chuanqing - officially classified as Han Chinese
- Dolan - officially classified as Uyghurs
- Kucong (苦聪人) - officially classified as Lahu
- Hui'an maidens - officially classified as Han Chinese
- Mosuo (摩梭人)[5] - officially classified as Naxi
- Shan (掸族) - some classified as Buyi, others as Zhuang, and still others as undistinguished
- Sherpa[6] (夏尔巴人), officially classified as Tibetans
- Tibetan Muslims- officially classified as Tibetans, also known as the Kachee
- Tuvans (图瓦人) - officially classified as Mongol
- Tanka - officially classified as Han Chinese
- Utsul - officially classified as Hui, though they have more in common with Malays and other Austronesian peoples.
- Waxiang people (瓦乡族) - officially classified as Miao or Han Chinese
- Ben people (本人) Khitan adherents in Shidian, Yunnan. They're not Daur people. Still use the otherwise extinct Khitan script in their cemeteries, [7] officially classified as Han Chinese.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Profile of the Khmu people in China, as cited by Native Planet
- ^ Article "A Proud People", from Asiaweek
- ^ Article about the Mang people, from Yunnan Travel Online (Article written in Simplified Chinese)
- ^ Article "Are There Really Jews in China?: An Update", from The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- ^ Article about the Mosuo people, from Yunnan Travel Online
- ^ Article on the Sherpa people, on ChinaCulture.org
- ^ http://www.nmg.xinhuanet.com/zjcy/2008-11/24/content_15000700.htm
[edit] External links
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
