Chinese Ethnic Minority And Nation-building

The modern nation-state appears in modern times. It has become social subjects’ behaviors in the international society. China has experienced a long and tortuous exploration way of "Nation-Democracy". Minority, as an important part of Chinese nation, plays an important role in establishing the nation-state. In the crisis in the late Qing Dynasty, minority people bravely defend the homeland against the invaders and against the feudal oppression to change their own situation. Between the end of the nineteenth Century and the beginning of the twentieth Century, minority actively involved in the revolutionary struggle in the influence of national democracy, and practiced the way of "Nation to Democracy". They made outstanding contribution in the overthrow of the feudal in the Revolution of1911. In general, in the construction of Chinese nation, the minority nationalities have experienced by the active spontaneous revolt to actively and consciously revolutionary activities, setting the Revolution of1911as the boundary points. For the territory security and sovereignty, the cohesion of the Chinese nation and the promotion of national identity, and establishing democratic republic and exercising sovereignty,Those people made important contributions for the national construction of Chinese.