ABSTRACT
Mainland China and Hong Kong are multicultural societies where individuals have intersectional identities. Although the governments and textbooks in both societies take a multicultural orientation to identity at an abstract level, they do not specifically apply it in their understanding of Chinese identity. This chapter argues that a multicultural approach should be applied to understanding Chinese identity as an alternative to the current approach. It starts by summarizing multiculturalism as a framework. Then, this chapter explains what the multicultural approach to Chinese identity means and how it can be adopted by the governments and applied in education. Finally, this chapter shows that this approach is not rootless within Chinese contexts, as it accords with a general multicultural orientation promoted in government documents and in textbooks.
