Who is apart of the Chinese nation (中华民族)? In asking this question, I realize I have somewhat taken for granted the active process by which the Chinese Communist Party constructed the Chinese nation, or how the CCP built an identity platform which was inclusive of dozens of different nationalities groups in the 1940s and 1950s. That is, of course, the “Chinese nation,” or the Zhonghua minzu (中华民族). Continue reading Nationalities Discourse in Chinese Yanbian, 1945-1952