Sentence examples for Han Chinese civilization from inspiring English sources

In antiquity Yunnan was inhabited by indigenous groups that were beyond the reach of Han Chinese civilization, though they acknowledged Chinese suzerainty under the Qin (221 207 bce) and Han dynasties.

The civilization of Han Chinese originated in the southern part of the Loess Plateau, and from there it extended outward until it encountered the combined barriers of relief and climate.

Physically separated from the early centres of Chinese civilization in North China, Guangdong was originally occupied by non-Han ethnic groups.

Han Chinese chauvinism, for example.

He has Han Chinese friends.

I am a writer, and Han Chinese.

"I know of no Han Chinese, though.

Gradually they spread out, influencing other tribal cultures, until, by the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce), most of China proper was dominated by the culture that had been formed in the cradle of northern Chinese civilization.

Four of the women were Han Chinese.

Officially, China has fifty-six ethnic groups; Han Chinese are by far the most numerous, representing more than ninety per cent of the population, and, historically, the vast majority of Han are proud of their role in Tibet, which they see as a long, costly process of extending civilization to a backward region.

"I often joke that the Chinese civilization is the last prehistoric civilization left in the world".