Racial Identities in China: Context and Meaning

Frank Dikötter

The China Quarterly · 1994 · 79 citations · 10 references

Concepts

Abstract

This yellow river, it so happens, bred a nation identified by its yellow skin pigment. Moreover, this nation also refers to its earliest ancestor as the Yellow Emperor. Today, on the face of the earth, of every five human beings there is one that is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor.

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