
T’ang and Sung China with Peter Bol
Conversations in World History
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The History of Manchury
China is incredibly diverse right like about how many ethnicities obviously depends how you count an ethnicity but what there's some of the independent depends on how you count. The Chinese are conflicted. But one hand they want to say you are all Chinese. On the other hand, they talk about Chinese culture, which is not Manchury and not Tibetan, not Uyghur culture. And all these minority people say, but we have a history of our own. We were once powerful.
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