... The Han Chinese 1. Some general characteristics The Han Chinese today form the most important group. Their field of expansion extends over nearly fifteen million square kilometers (six million square miles). amount to more than a billion and are the majority in the twenty-one provinces that form China proper. Overseas Han Chinese consisting of large Chinese communities which have established ... difference among them than some Indo-European languages, for example Spanish and Italian. Why they are called dialects? Chinese Romanization systems (Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Zhuyin Fuhao). There is...

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... accidentally killed Robert Thompson. "That evening a mob of about 500 whites killed 19 Chinese and looted Negro Alley. Every Chinese-occupied building on the block was ransacked and almost every resident was robbed. The man who actually shot Thompson escaped punishment, and only a few of the guilty members were ... outraged and infuriated the people, particularly the people of Watsonville. Most of this fury was targeted on a taxi dance hall just a few miles from Watsonville in Palm Beach. The rumor was that there were young white women being courted in this particular dance hall. Outrage...

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