Zhuang
The Zhuang are a minority people living in south and southwest China, mostly in the mountainous areas of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Wenshan Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Yunan province. A number of Zhuang communities are also scattered in Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces. With 15.5 million people (1990 census), the Zhunag are the largest of all Chinese minority nationalities in terms of population.
Before 1949, Zhuang groups described themselves with more than twenty different names. In the 1950s the government redefined all Zhuang groups and in 1965 it renamed all of them Zhuang.
Further Reading
Kaup, Katherine. (2000) Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Ma, Yin. (1989) China's Minority Nationalities. Beijing: Foreign Language Press.
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