Publication

This publication discusses the diversity of ethnic groups in China which include the majority Han nationality and 55 minority groups. The author argues that for centuries, China has held together a vast multicultural, multiethnic and multilinguistic nation despite alternating periods of political centralization and fragmentation. He states, however, that cultural and linguistic cleavages could worsen in a China weakened by internal strife, inflation, uneven growth or a post-Deng struggle for succession.