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Han Chinese subgroups, the Glossary

The Han Chinese people can be defined into subgroups based on linguistic, cultural, ethnic, genetic, and regional features.^[1]

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Subgroups of the Han Chinese

Ba–Shu culture

Ba-Shu culture (p) refers to a regional culture centered around Sichuan province and Chongqing city, also encompassing parts of Yunnan, Guizhou, southwestern Shaanxi (particularly Hanzhong) and neighboring regions which speak Southwestern Mandarin.

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Bohai Sea

The Bohai Sea is a gulf/inland sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China.

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Caijia language

Caijia is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in an area centred on Bijie, in the west of the Chinese province of Guizhou.

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Cangnan County

Cangnan County is a county in the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang, China.

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Cantonese

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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Cantonese culture

Cantonese culture, or Lingnan culture, refers to the regional Chinese culture of the region of Lingnan: twin provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, the names of which mean "eastern expanse" and "western expanse", respectively.

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Cantonese people in Hong Kong

Cantonese people represent the largest group in Hong Kong.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Changdao County

Changdao County was a county in Yantai, a prefectural area of Shandong in the People's Republic of China.

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Chaoshan

Chaoshan or Teoswa (peng'im: Dio5suan1) is a cultural-linguistic region in the east of Guangdong, China.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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Chuanqing people

The Chuanqing people are an East Asian ethnic group.

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Culture of Hong Kong

The culture of Hong Kong is primarily a mix of Chinese and Western influences, stemming from Lingnan Cantonese roots and later fusing with British culture due to British colonialism (Jyutping:; Traditional Chinese: 粵英薈萃).

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Culture of Hunan

The culture of Hunan (湖湘文化) refers to the culture of the people based in the Hunan province of China.

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Culture of Jiangxi

The culture of Jiangxi refers to the culture of the people based in or with origins in Jiangxi province, China.

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Culture of Macau

Macau is an autonomous territory within China.

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Dungan people

Dungan is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Hui origin.

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Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia

The ethnic groups in Southeast Asia comprise many different ethnolinguistic stocks.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Fujian

Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

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Fuzhou dialect

The Fuzhou language (FR), also Foochow, Hokchew, Hok-chiu, or Fuzhounese, is the prestige variety of the Eastern Min branch of Min Chinese spoken mainly in the Mindong region of Eastern Fujian Province.

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Fuzhou people

Fuzhou people (Foochow Romanized), also known as Foochowese, Hokchew, Hokchia, Hokchiu, Fuzhou Shiyi people (福州十邑人), Eastern Min or Mindong are residents of either Fuzhou and Mindong regions and the Gutian and Pingnan counties of Fujian province and Matsu Islands in Taiwan. Han Chinese subgroups and Fuzhou people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Gaoshan Han

The Gaoshan Han (高山漢) are a subgroup of the Han Chinese located in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces such as in Rongjiang County of Guizhou. Han Chinese subgroups and Gaoshan Han are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Guangxi

Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Guizhou

Guizhou is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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Hainan

Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.

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Hainan people

The Hainan people (Hái-nâm nâng), or Hainam people is a term referring to the residents of Hainan, the southernmost and smallest Chinese province.

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Haipai

Haipai (Shanghainese: hepha,; literally "hai style") refers to the avant-garde but unique "East Meets West" culture from Shanghai in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Hakka Chinese

Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:,; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.

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Hakka culture

Hakka culture (t) refers to the culture created by Hakka people, a Han Chinese subgroup, across Asia and the Americas.

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Hakka people

The Hakka, sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province. Han Chinese subgroups and Hakka people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.

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Harvard University Asia Center

The Harvard University Asia Center is an interdisciplinary research and education unit of Harvard University, established on July 1, 1997, with the goal of "driving varied programs focusing on international relations in Asia and comparative studies of Asian countries and regions (...) and supplementing other Asia-related programs and institutes and the University and providing a focal point for interaction and exchange on topics of common interest for the Harvard community and Asian intellectual, political, and business circles," according to its charter.

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Hokkien

Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.

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Hokkien culture

Minnan culture or Hokkien/Hoklo culture (Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm bûn-hòa), also considered as the Mainstream Southern Min Culture, refers to the culture of the Hoklo people, a group of Han Chinese people who have historically been the dominant demographic in the province of Fujian (called "Hokkien" in the Hoklo language) in Southern China, Taiwan, and certain overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Southern Thailand, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.

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Hoklo people

The Hoklo people are a Han Chinese subgroup who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, or trace their ancestry to southeastern Fujian in China, and known by various related terms such as Banlam people, Minnan people, or more commonly in Southeast Asia as the Hokkien people.

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Hoklo Taiwanese

Hoklo Taiwanese (t) or Holo people (c) are a major ethnic group in Taiwan whose ancestry is wholly or partially Hoklo.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Huai River

The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of.

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Hubei

Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.

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Hui people

The Hui people (回族|p. Han Chinese subgroups and Hui people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Huizhou Chinese

Huizhou Chinese, or the Hui dialect, is a group of closely related Sinitic languages spoken over a small area in and around the historical region of Huizhou (for which it is named), in about ten or so mountainous counties in southern Anhui, plus a few more in neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

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Huizhou, Anhui

Huizhou is a historical region in Anhui Province which roughly corresponds to Huangshan City today – the southernmost region of the province.

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Hunan

Hunan is an inland province of China.

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Hunanese people

The Hunanese people or Xiang-speaking Chinese (Xiang Chinese: 湘語人 Shiōn'nỳ nin) are a Xiang-speaking Han Chinese ethnic subgroup originating from Hunan province in Southern China, but Xiang-speaking people are also found in the adjacent provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou. Han Chinese subgroups and Hunanese people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Jianghuai

Jianghuai (江淮; pinyin: Jiānghuái) is a geographical area in China referring to the plain between the Yangtze and Huai Rivers, in the modern provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu.

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Jiangnan

Jiangnan is a geographic area in China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of its delta.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Jiangxi

Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China.

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Jiaoliao Mandarin

Jiaoliao or Jiao–Liao Mandarin, sometimes referred to as Peninsular Mandarin, is a primary dialect of Mandarin Chinese, spoken on the Jiaodong Peninsula, from Yantai to Qingdao, Ganyu District in northeastern Jiangsu and the Liaodong Peninsula, from Dalian to Dandong, and in Mishan, Hulin, Fuyuan & Raohe counties of Heilongjiang.

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Jilu Mandarin

Jilu or Ji–Lu Mandarin, formerly known as Beifang Mandarin "Northern Mandarin", is a dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the Chinese provinces of Hebei (冀, Jì) and the western part of Shandong (魯, Lǔ) and Xunke, Tangwang & Jiayin counties of Heilongjiang.

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Liangguang

Liangguang (Postal romanization: Liangkwang) is a Chinese term for the province of Guangdong and the former province and present autonomous region of Guangxi, collectively.

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Liaodong Peninsula

The Liaodong or Liaotung Peninsula is a peninsula in southern Liaoning province in Northeast China, and makes up the southwestern coastal half of the Liaodong region.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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List of ethnic groups in China

The Han people are the largest ethnic group in mainland China.

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Macanese people

The Macanese people (Macaense, Maquista) are a multiracial East Asian ethnic group that originated in Macau in the 16th century, consisting of people of predominantly mixed Cantonese and Portuguese as well as Malay, Japanese, English, Dutch, Sinhalese, and Indian ancestry.

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Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Macau people

Macau people (t) are people who originate from or live in Macau.

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Mainland China

Mainland China is the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War.

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Mainland Chinese

Mainland Chinese or mainlanders are Chinese people who live in or have recently emigrated from mainland China, defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) except for Hong Kong (SAR of the PRC), Macau (SAR of the PRC), and the partly-PRC-controlled South China Sea Islands (uninhabited and disputed), and also excluding certain territories that are claimed by the PRC but not controlled, namely Taiwan a.k.a.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Min Chinese

Min (BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic languages with about 70 million native speakers.

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Minnan region

Minnan, Banlam or Minnan Golden Triangle, refers to the coastal region in South Fujian Province, China, which includes the prefecture-level cities of Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.

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Nanjing dialect

The Nanjing dialect, also known as Nankinese, Nankingese, Nanjingese and Nanjing Mandarin, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Nanjing, China.

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Ningbo dialect

The Ningbo dialect is a dialect of Wu Chinese, one subdivision of Chinese language.

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Northeastern Mandarin

Northeastern Mandarin (or 东北官话/東北官話 Dōngběiguānhuà "Northeast Mandarin") is the subgroup of Mandarin varieties spoken in Northeast China with the exception of the Liaodong Peninsula and few enclaves along Amur and Ussuri rivers.

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Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

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Pearl River

The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China.

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Peranakan Chinese

The Peranakan Chinese are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang, namely the British Colonial ruled ports in the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago, as well as Singapore. Han Chinese subgroups and Peranakan Chinese are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Pu–Xian Min

Pu–Xian Min (Hinghwa Romanized: Pó-sing-gṳ̂), also known as Putian–Xianyou Min, Puxian Min, Pu–Xian Chinese, Xinghua, Henghua, Hinghua or Hinghwa (Hing-hua̍-gṳ̂), is a Chinese language that forms a branch of Min Chinese.

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Putian

Putian (Putian dialect: Pó-chéng), also known as Puyang (莆阳) and Puxian (莆仙), historically known as Xinghua, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.

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Putian people

The Putian people (Chinese: 莆田人, pinyin: Pútiánrén; Puxian Min: 莆仙儂, Hinghwa Romanized: Pó-sing-náng) are people from Putian, east Fujian, China.

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Regional discrimination in China

Regional discrimination in China or regionalism is overt prejudice against people based on their places of origin, ethnicity, sub-ethnicity, language, dialect, or their current provincial zones. Han Chinese subgroups and regional discrimination in China are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Shandong Peninsula

The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shanghainese

The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas.

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Shanghainese people

Shanghainese people (Shanghainese: Zaanhe-nyin) are an ethnic group of Shanghai Hukou descent or people who have ancestral roots from Shanghai. Han Chinese subgroups and Shanghainese people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Shanghainese people in Hong Kong

Shanghainese people in Hong Kong have played an important role in the region, despite being a relatively small portion of the Han Chinese population.

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Sichuan

Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Sichuanese people

The Sichuanese people are a Han Chinese subgroup comprising most of the population of China's Sichuan province and the Chongqing municipality. Han Chinese subgroups and Sichuanese people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Southern Min

Southern Min, Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation) or Banlam, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan (many citizens are descendants of settlers from Fujian), Eastern Guangdong, Hainan, and Southern Zhejiang.

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Southwestern Mandarin

Southwestern Mandarin, also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin, is a Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in much of Southwestern China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the northern part of Guangxi and some southern parts of Shaanxi and Gansu.

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Sovereignty at the Edge

Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness is a 2010 book by Cathryn H. Clayton, published by the Harvard University Asia Center.

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Taihu Wu

Taihu Wu (吳語太湖片) or Northern Wu (北部吳語) is a Wu Chinese language spoken in much of the southern part of the province of Jiangsu, including Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, the southern part of Nantong, Jingjiang and Danyang; the municipality of Shanghai; and the northern part of Zhejiang province, including Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Huzhou, and Jiaxing.

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Taishanese people

Taishanese people (Taishanese: Hoi San Ngin), Sze Yup people (Taishanese: Hlei Yip Ngin), or Toisanese are a Yue-speaking Han Chinese group coming from Sze Yup (四邑), which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui and Enping.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Tanka people

The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river, as well as Hong Kong, and Macau. Han Chinese subgroups and Tanka people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Taz people

The Taz are a Tungusic and Sinitic people who primarily live in Russia. Han Chinese subgroups and Taz people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Teochew people

The Teochew people or Chaoshanese, Teo-Swa people or Chaoshan people (rendered Têo-Swa in romanized Teoswa and Cháoshàn in Modern Standard Mandarin also known as Teo-Swa in mainland China due to a change in place names) is an ethnic group native to the historical Chaoshan region in south China who speak the Teochew language. Han Chinese subgroups and Teochew people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Tunbao

The Tunbao or Tunpu are an ethnic subgroup of the Han, located in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, China. Han Chinese subgroups and Tunbao are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Waishengren

Waishengren (Tâi-lô: guā-síng-lâng), sometimes called mainlanders, are a group of migrants who arrived in Taiwan from mainland China between the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, and Kuomintang retreat and the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

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Waxiang people

The Waxiang people are an unrecognized ethnic group living along the Yuan River in Yuanling County of western Hunan, China. Han Chinese subgroups and Waxiang people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Wenzhou

Wenzhou is a prefecture-level city in China's Zhejiang province.

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Wenzhou people

Wenzhou people or Wenzhounese people is a subgroup of Oujiang Wu Chinese speaking peoples, who live primarily in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. Han Chinese subgroups and Wenzhou people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Wenzhounese

Wenzhounese (Wenzhounese), also known as Oujiang, Tong Au or Au Nyü, is the language spoken in Wenzhou, the southern prefecture of Zhejiang, China.

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Wu (region)

Wu refers to a region in China centered on Lake Tai in Jiangnan (the region south of the Yangtze River).

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Wu Chinese

Wu (Wu romanization and IPA:ngu ngei, (Shanghainese), (Suzhounese), Mandarin) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, and the part of Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu.

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Wu Chinese-speaking people

The Wu Chinese people, also known as Wuyue people (Shanghainese), Jiang-Zhe people (江浙民系) or San Kiang (三江), are a major subgroup of the Han Chinese. Han Chinese subgroups and Wu Chinese-speaking people are subgroups of the Han Chinese.

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Wuyue culture

Wuyue culture refers to the regional Chinese culture of the Wuyue people, a Han Chinese subgroup that has historically been the dominant demographic in the region of Jiangnan (entirety of the city of Shanghai, and the province of Zhejiang, the southern portion of Jiangsu province and the eastern portion of Anhui province).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese_subgroups

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