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(photo 9 for above post) (photo 10) (photo 11) (photo 12) (photo 13) (photo 14) Nuosu bimo priest conducting a funeral, Baiwu 2002. (Photo by Stevan Harrell.)

Migrate or educate in China's borderlands By Stevan Harrell and Aga Rehamo Early 21st-cenutry China is undergoing several radical transformations that are profoundly affecting its physical, social, and cultural fabric. Not as dramatic, perhaps, as the earlier series of land reform...

China: Ethnic Odyssey

Index of Ethnic Group in China English Name.... Chinese Name Population(est.) Post # Page Achang...............阿昌族.................40,000................437 ........30 Bai ....................白族 ................... 2...

Not yet recognized ethnic groups 未识别民族 Lai people 萊人 speak a Boyu language that's a branch of Mon-Khmer branch. 1,400 Lai speakers reside in Guangxi, and over 1,000 in Yunnan Jews or Yutai 犹太. Jewish settlers are documented...

Not yet recognized ethnic groups 未识别民族 Mecanese people 土生葡人 are people with Portugal ancestries and born in Macau. There are about 5,000 to 8,000 Mecanese live in Macau and all are Catholic today. The older generation used to...

Listed under another recognized ethnic group(s) Akha people- listed as a branch of Hani people. The Akha, with a total population of 450,000, are an indigenous hill tribe that live in small villages at high altitudes in the mountains of Thailand (where they form one of the largest hill...

Listed under another recognized ethnic group(s) Gejia people 革家人 are found in Guizhou province 贵州省, southwestern China. They are officially classified as a part of the Miao, but have separate status in Guizhou Province. The Gejia live mainly in...

Han people 汉族 - Tanka people 疍家人 The daily lives of Tanka people in Hainan (continue) They farm fishes too Works and two meals a day for more than 7 thousand years

Han people 汉族 - Tanka people 疍家人 The daily lives of Tanka people in Hainan

Han people 汉族 - Tanka people 疍家人 Tanka is not a race or ethnicity but a living style Tanka people are indigenous to the coast of China and Vietnam and their histories dated back to 7 thousand years In Fujian the Tankan extend their reach...

Han people 汉族 - Tanka people 疍家人 香港仔避风塘 Aberdeen Typhoon shelter in HK is one of a shelter the Tanka people live Another shelter A Tanka wedding A birthday girl in Fuzhou Another...

Han people 汉族 - Tanka people 疍家人 Tanka people 疍家人 or, people live in boats, are a special group in Southern China who have traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, and Zhejiang provinces, as...

Han people 汉族 - Hui'an Maidens 惠安女 In the old tradition, which wasn't too long ago, marriages are arranged by the elders and newly weds hardly see each other until their first child is born. They had to act like pairs of thieves on their conjugal...

Han people 汉族 - Hui'an Maidens 惠安女

Han people 汉族 - Hui'an Maidens 惠安女 Hui'an Maidens 惠安女 are a group of women residing in Hui'an County 惠安县 of Quanzhou 泉州市, Fujian Province. They are Han Chinese, but trace their origins to the...

Han people 汉族 - Hui'an Maidens 惠安女

Han people 汉族 Chongwu Township 崇武镇 in Hui'an County 惠安县 of Quanzhou 泉州市, Fujian Province is a peninsula, surrounded by mountains in the north and water in the east, south and west. The second most notable feature...

Han people 汉族 - Oversea Chinese 海外华人 Chinese Filipinos 华菲, are numbered about 1.5 million (2005) , account foe 1.6% of Philippines' population. This figure however does not include the Chinese Mestizos 華菲混&#34880...

Han people 汉族 - Oversea Chinese 海外华人 [B]Burmese Chinese 缅甸华人 are numbered about 1.64 million (2012). Although the Chinese officially make up three percent of the population, the actual figure is believed to be much...