Culture Clash: China's 56 Ethnic Groups

With just over 1.3 billion people, China is the largest and most populated country in the world. With the world's population at approximately 6.7 billion, China represents a full 20%, which means one in every five people on the planet is a resident of China.

China also has one of the world's oldest civilizations, with archaeological evidence dating back over 5,000 years. They have had the largest and most advanced civilization for much of recorded history, and are viewed as a source of many major inventions, including one of the world's oldest written language systems.

While the vast majority of Chinese are Han Chinese, the remainder are distributed among 55 other ethnic groups. In this set, all of the ethnic groups are portrayed in professionally composed group portraits, with subjects wearing traditional dress and often carrying traditional instruments or tools.

via wenxuecity, neatorama

Tags: 56, China's, Clash, Culture, Ethnic, Groups

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Comment by Mark Huckabee on December 4, 2009 at 7:02am: Awesome. China is such an important country and we in the US generally know almost nothing about it. Thanks for this great post!

Comment by Sebastian Collier on December 4, 2009 at 3:49am: Facinating and brilliant.

Comment by Inka Leoni on December 4, 2009 at 3:44am: This is incredible! I actually took the time to look at each of them and I love the ethnic Lisu photo. If I counted correctly it's the 19th pic. Counted from above. Anyway..those people all look pretty relaxed no on is trying real hard to pose for the picture which makes its better.

Love seeing the different traditional dress. Cool post.

Comment by melky on December 4, 2009 at 12:34am: wow!!
where are these images from?