Encyclopedia of Peoples of China, Phoenix Publishing Group

The fully-illustrated book is a sample of West-East Corporation to promote the understanding on China. The writing team, led by Minzu University professor Zhang Haiyang and Chinese publishing expert Paul Richardson, comprises of Chinese minorities living in various countries. The book offers a uniquely rich and informed insight into a neglected but enormously significant subject for the modern world - the history and development of national consciousness and ethnic diversity in modern China.

In his challenging and sometimes controversial narrative and analysis of the emergence of the unified Zhonghua Minzu, the modern Chinese Nation, which transcends ethnic divisions, Zhang guides the reader from the dawn of Chinese civilization to the process of ethnic identification and the creation of autonomous ethnic entities under the Communist government since 1949.