https://samurai-archives.com/w/index.php?title=Han_people&feed=atom&action=historyHan people - Revision history2024-03-29T13:42:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://samurai-archives.com/w/index.php?title=Han_people&diff=34964&oldid=prevLordAmeth: /* Expansion */2016-09-23T02:45:06Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Expansion</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As early as the 200s BCE, however, the Han people established a strong state, the [[Qin Dynasty]], followed by the [[Han Dynasty]], which controlled a vast area encompassing much of China proper, and even incorporating [[Vietnam]], which was ruled as an integral part of the Chinese empire for as long as a thousand years, from 111 BCE until [[939]] CE.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As early as the 200s BCE, however, the Han people established a strong state, the [[Qin Dynasty]], followed by the [[Han Dynasty]], which controlled a vast area encompassing much of China proper, and even incorporating [[Vietnam]], which was ruled as an integral part of the Chinese empire for as long as a thousand years, from 111 BCE until [[939]] CE.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The term ''Hanren'' ("Han people") seems to have first appeared in [[299]] CE. At that time, it referred to all subjects of the empire, and not to only one particular ethnic group.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 192.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some traditional treatments of Han origins place them as first emerging in the loess plains near the great bend of the [[Yellow River]], in the area surrounding what is today the city of [[Chang'an|Xi'an]]. As late as around 1000 BCE, they are believed to have inhabited an area no larger than ten percent of what is today considered "China proper."<ref>That is, excluding Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, to which the Chinese Empire expanded only in the 17th-18th centuries.</ref> Other peoples known today as the Yue, Li, Shu, and Zhuang, among others, lived beyond that area.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some traditional treatments of Han origins place them as first emerging in the loess plains near the great bend of the [[Yellow River]], in the area surrounding what is today the city of [[Chang'an|Xi'an]]. As late as around 1000 BCE, they are believed to have inhabited an area no larger than ten percent of what is today considered "<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>China proper<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>."<ref>That is, excluding Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, to which the Chinese Empire expanded only in the 17th-18th centuries.</ref> Other peoples known today as the Yue, Li, Shu, and Zhuang, among others, lived beyond that area.</div></td></tr>
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</table>LordAmethhttps://samurai-archives.com/w/index.php?title=Han_people&diff=29858&oldid=prevLordAmeth: /* Expansion */2015-01-07T00:03:45Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Expansion</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Court actively encouraged migration into less densely settled areas of the empire, especially in border regions along the [[Great Wall of China]] and near Burma; roughly one million people moved into [[Yunnan province]] during this period, encouraged by various incentive policies of the Court. Similar incentives were also deployed in the early decades of the Qing Dynasty (in the 17th century) to encourage settlement in [[Sichuan province]]. Meanwhile, many people moved west on their own (without government incentive), as well as to [[Taiwan]] and elsewhere, dramatically increasing the extent of settlement of many of these regions. The population of Sichuan increased by 35 million in the period from the 1780s to 1850s alone, more than quadrupling from its earlier levels.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Court actively encouraged migration into less densely settled areas of the empire, especially in border regions along the [[Great Wall of China]] and near Burma; roughly one million people moved into [[Yunnan province]] during this period, encouraged by various incentive policies of the Court. Similar incentives were also deployed in the early decades of the Qing Dynasty (in the 17th century) to encourage settlement in [[Sichuan province]]. Meanwhile, many people moved west on their own (without government incentive), as well as to [[Taiwan]] and elsewhere, dramatically increasing the extent of settlement of many of these regions. The population of Sichuan increased by 35 million in the period from the 1780s to 1850s alone, more than quadrupling from its earlier levels<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. In many of these regions, Han settlers bought land from non-Han people, or took it by force, and aided other Han settlers, providing them with seed, livestock, or money, and helping them obtain land</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the 19th century, the [[Taiping Rebellion]] and other events caused considerable destruction and depopulation of the southeastern coastal regions; the western regions, meanwhile, to which people had been migrating for several centuries, now began to grow overpopulated. Migration west dwindled, and many people began to instead move back east, as well as to the northeast (into Manchuria), and overseas. Han Chinese settlement in Manchuria was initially prohibited under the Qing, and as late as 1800 the Manchu homeland had a population of only around one million. However, in the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the Court succumbed to various pressures, and began to allow Han people to settle in the area. The construction of a railroad into Manchuria in [[1902]] aided Chinese settlement, which strengthened Chinese/Qing claims to the territory against Russian encroachment. By the 1950s, Manchuria was home to as many as 47 million people, including many Han Chinese, and various areas of Southeast Asia were home to strong diasporic communities, totaling as many as 13 million.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the 19th century, the [[Taiping Rebellion]] and other events caused considerable destruction and depopulation of the southeastern coastal regions; the western regions, meanwhile, to which people had been migrating for several centuries, now began to grow overpopulated. Migration west dwindled, and many people began to instead move back east, as well as to the northeast (into Manchuria), and overseas. Han Chinese settlement in Manchuria was initially prohibited under the Qing, and as late as 1800 the Manchu homeland had a population of only around one million. However, in the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the Court succumbed to various pressures, and began to allow Han people to settle in the area. The construction of a railroad into Manchuria in [[1902]] aided Chinese settlement, which strengthened Chinese/Qing claims to the territory against Russian encroachment. By the 1950s, Manchuria was home to as many as 47 million people, including many Han Chinese, and various areas of Southeast Asia were home to strong diasporic communities, totaling as many as 13 million.</div></td></tr>
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</table>LordAmethhttps://samurai-archives.com/w/index.php?title=Han_people&diff=29857&oldid=prevLordAmeth at 23:58, 6 January 20152015-01-06T23:58:50Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Han people are the dominant ethnicity of China, constituting as much as 92% of the Chinese population in the late [[Qing Dynasty]], and outnumbering the ruling [[Manchu people|Manchu ethnic group]] at that time by around 300 to 1. Originally inhabiting only a small area in what is now considered northwestern China, the Han expanded over the last 3,000 years to become the majority ethnic group of a land area more than 3.5 million square miles in size, and continue to expand today, slowly gaining demographic dominance in areas such as [[Tibet]] and [[Xinjiang]]. Han people have also emigrated overseas in large numbers for centuries, forming a sizable [[Chinese diaspora]] in Southeast Asia, Hawaii, North America, and throughout the world.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Han people are the dominant ethnicity of China, constituting as much as 92% of the Chinese population in the late [[Qing Dynasty]], and outnumbering the ruling [[Manchu people|Manchu ethnic group]] at that time by around 300 to 1. Originally inhabiting only a small area in what is now considered northwestern China, the Han expanded over the last 3,000 years to become the majority ethnic group of a land area more than 3.5 million square miles in size, and continue to expand today, slowly gaining demographic dominance in areas such as [[Tibet]] and [[Xinjiang]]. Han people have also emigrated overseas in large numbers for centuries<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, despite official bans on overseas settlement</ins>, forming a sizable [[Chinese diaspora]] in Southeast Asia, Hawaii, North America, and throughout the world.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref>Overseas settlement was banned by the Ming and Qing Courts until [[1893]]. Eastman, 12.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some traditional treatments of Han origins place them as first emerging in the loess plains near the great bend of the [[Yellow River]], in the area surrounding what is today the city of [[Chang'an|Xi'an]]. As late as around 1000 BCE, they are believed to have inhabited an area no larger than ten percent of what is today considered "China proper."<ref>That is, excluding Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, to which the Chinese Empire expanded only in the 17th-18th centuries.</ref> Other peoples known today as the Yue, Li, Shu, and Zhuang, among others, lived beyond that area.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some traditional treatments of Han origins place them as first emerging in the loess plains near the great bend of the [[Yellow River]], in the area surrounding what is today the city of [[Chang'an|Xi'an]]. As late as around 1000 BCE, they are believed to have inhabited an area no larger than ten percent of what is today considered "China proper."<ref>That is, excluding Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, to which the Chinese Empire expanded only in the 17th-18th centuries.</ref> Other peoples known today as the Yue, Li, Shu, and Zhuang, among others, lived beyond that area.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Expansion==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As early as the 200s BCE, however, the Han people established a strong state, the [[Qin Dynasty]], followed by the [[Han Dynasty]], which controlled a vast area encompassing much of China proper, and even incorporating [[Vietnam]], which was ruled as an integral part of the Chinese empire for as long as a thousand years, from 111 BCE until [[939]] CE.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As early as the 200s BCE, however, the Han people established a strong state, the [[Qin Dynasty]], followed by the [[Han Dynasty]], which controlled a vast area encompassing much of China proper, and even incorporating [[Vietnam]], which was ruled as an integral part of the Chinese empire for as long as a thousand years, from 111 BCE until [[939]] CE.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Court actively encouraged migration into less densely settled areas of the empire, especially in border regions along the [[Great Wall of China]] and near Burma; roughly one million people moved into [[Yunnan province]] during this period, encouraged by various incentive policies of the Court. Similar incentives were also deployed in the early decades of the Qing Dynasty (in the 17th century) to encourage settlement in [[Sichuan province]]. Meanwhile, many people moved west on their own (without government incentive), as well as to [[Taiwan]] and elsewhere, dramatically increasing the extent of settlement of many of these regions. The population of Sichuan increased by 35 million in the period from the 1780s to 1850s alone, more than quadrupling from its earlier levels.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>LordAmethhttps://samurai-archives.com/w/index.php?title=Han_people&diff=29855&oldid=prevLordAmeth: Created page with "*''Chinese'': 漢人 ''(Hàn rén)'' The Han people are the dominant ethnicity of China, constituting as much as 92% of the Chinese population in the late Qing Dynasty, a..."2015-01-06T23:09:43Z<p>Created page with "*''Chinese'': 漢人 ''(Hàn rén)'' The Han people are the dominant ethnicity of China, constituting as much as 92% of the Chinese population in the late <a href="/wiki/Qing_Dynasty" title="Qing Dynasty">Qing Dynasty</a>, a..."</p>
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The Han people are the dominant ethnicity of China, constituting as much as 92% of the Chinese population in the late [[Qing Dynasty]], and outnumbering the ruling [[Manchu people|Manchu ethnic group]] at that time by around 300 to 1. Originally inhabiting only a small area in what is now considered northwestern China, the Han expanded over the last 3,000 years to become the majority ethnic group of a land area more than 3.5 million square miles in size, and continue to expand today, slowly gaining demographic dominance in areas such as [[Tibet]] and [[Xinjiang]]. Han people have also emigrated overseas in large numbers for centuries, forming a sizable [[Chinese diaspora]] in Southeast Asia, Hawaii, North America, and throughout the world.<br />
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==Origins & Expansion==<br />
Some traditional treatments of Han origins place them as first emerging in the loess plains near the great bend of the [[Yellow River]], in the area surrounding what is today the city of [[Chang'an|Xi'an]]. As late as around 1000 BCE, they are believed to have inhabited an area no larger than ten percent of what is today considered "China proper."<ref>That is, excluding Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, to which the Chinese Empire expanded only in the 17th-18th centuries.</ref> Other peoples known today as the Yue, Li, Shu, and Zhuang, among others, lived beyond that area.<br />
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As early as the 200s BCE, however, the Han people established a strong state, the [[Qin Dynasty]], followed by the [[Han Dynasty]], which controlled a vast area encompassing much of China proper, and even incorporating [[Vietnam]], which was ruled as an integral part of the Chinese empire for as long as a thousand years, from 111 BCE until [[939]] CE.<br />
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Raids and attacks by nomadic peoples from the steppes spurred many Han people to begin migrating south in the 4th-5th centuries CE, however, and by the 8th-12th centuries ([[Tang Dynasty]] through [[Song Dynasty|Song Dynasties]]), the ancestral Han homeland in the northwest was surpassed by southern China - especially the Jiangnan area south of the [[Yangtze River]], around [[Hangzhou]], and the southern coastal provinces of [[Fujian province|Fujian]] and [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] - which now became the center of gravity of Han Chinese population. While the population in northwest China grew by around 50% over the course of the 8th-12th centuries due to regular population growth, that of southwest China multiplied by a factor of seven in that same period, and by the year 1200, as much as 75% of Han people lived in southern China. As late as the 16th century (during the [[Ming Dynasty]]), population and settlement remained relatively sparse away from the coast, and many inland areas remained completely undeveloped. While millet and barley remained the chief crops in the north, people in the south took up rice as their staple crop, forming the core of dramatic cultural changes.<br />
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*Lloyd Eastman, ''Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949'', Oxford University Press (1988), 8-.<br />
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