It is recommended to read Wang Mingke's "On Chinese Borderlands: Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity".
What exactly is a Chinese? As a Taiwanese scholar specializing in the history of China's border ethnic groups, the author cites a large amount of historical, archaeological and anthropological materials to interpret the essence of the Chinese people from a new perspective - the formation and historical memory of ethnic group boundaries. It explains how the Chinese ethnic group's boundaries formed and changed in specific resource competition and distribution environments, how the Chinese relied on historical memories and amnesia to unite and expand, and how the people at the Chinese ethnic group's boundaries used historical memories and amnesia to become Chinese or non-Chinese.
It is recommended to read Wang Mingke's "On Chinese Borderlands: Historical Memory and Ethnic Identity".
What exactly is a Chinese? As a Taiwanese scholar specializing in the history of China's border ethnic groups, the author cites a large amount of historical, archaeological and anthropological materials to interpret the essence of the Chinese people from a new perspective - the formation and historical memory of ethnic group boundaries. It explains how the Chinese ethnic group's boundaries formed and changed in specific resource competition and distribution environments, how the Chinese relied on historical memories and amnesia to unite and expand, and how the people at the Chinese ethnic group's boundaries used historical memories and amnesia to become Chinese or non-Chinese.