enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ethnic villages of China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_villages_of_China

    The Yunnan Nationalities Village, colloquially Yunnan Ethnic Village, (Chinese: 云南民族村; pinyin: Yúnnán Mínzú Cūn) is a theme park that displays the various folklore, culture, and religion of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan Province, China next to Dianchi lake. [20] The park covers an area of 89 hectares including 31 hectares of water. [20]

  3. Dai people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_people

    A small minority of Dai practice Islam. These specific Dai are often called "Parshi Dai" or "Dai Hui". Hui (Chinese Muslim) merchants from Dali and other parts of Yunnan settled in Xishuangbanna in the early nineteenth century. These settlers assimilated and intermarried with the locals which eventually led to the creation of a unique Dai and ...

  4. Yunnan Ethnic Village - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan_Ethnic_Village

    The Yunnan Ethnic Village (Chinese: 云南民族村; pinyin: Yúnnán Mínzú Cūn) is an ethnographic village and theme park that displays the various folklore, culture, and architecture of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan Province, China. [1] The park's major goal is mainly to display some aspects of Yunnan's ethnicity, cultural diversity, and ...

  5. Yi people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_people

    The Yuan emperors remained firmly in control of the Yi people and the area they inhabited as part of Kublai Khan's Yunnan Xingsheng (云南行省) at current Yunnan, Guizhou and part of Sichuan. In order to enhance its sovereign over the area, the Yuan dynasty set up a dominion for Yi, Luoluo Xuanweisi ( 罗罗宣慰司 ), the name of which ...

  6. Ethnic minorities in China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China

    Whereas in many nations a citizen's minority status is defined by their self-identification as an ethnic minority, in China minority nationality (shǎoshù mínzú) is fixed at birth, a practice that can be traced to the foundation of the PRC, when the Communist Party commissioned studies to categorize and delineate groups based on research ...

  7. Yunnan Minzu University - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan_Minzu_University

    Formerly [until when?] known as Yunnan Nationalities Institute when established on August 1, 1951, the university was founded in part to instruct government leaders to assist minority ethnic groups of Yunnan to ensure their political rights. The school was renamed Yunnan Nationalities University (YNU) on April 16, 2003.

  8. How MMA Glory Is Shining a New Light on China’s ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/mma-glory-shining-light-china...

    The disproportionate success of ethnic minorities in Chinese MMA is galvanizing interest in their ... sash” of China’s Yi ethnic minority, the 25-year-old thanked “all my Yi compatriots for ...

  9. Bai people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_people

    Today, the Bai people accept minority status for pragmatic reasons; however, they are culturally nearly indistinguishable from Han Chinese. [ 5 ] One prerequisite for creating a hybrid form of Chinese would be a unique cultural identity, distinct from the Han, but the Bai people have been said by the sinologist Charles Patrick Fitzgerald to ...