ABSTRACT
Impressions of ethnic tensions in China are so dominated by the case of Tibet that it is easy to forget that there are in all fifty-five recognized ‘minority nationalities’ incorporated into modern China’s territory. Altogether there are some seventy million national minority peoples, of whom by far the largest group is the Zhuang, of Guangxi in south-west China, who number about thirteen million. More famous perhaps are the Mongols, Uighurs, and Miao.
