漢族民系指的根據語言、文化以及地域特徵而劃分的漢族支派(支系),除了汉族外,世界上其他民族內部也有不同支系,中國大陸以「民系」一詞稱之,台灣及歐美學者則使用「族群」一詞。[1]
Among them arrived a sizeable number of Shanghainese who quickly formed an ethnic group relatively new to the ... It is used actually as a convenient shorthand standing for those Chinese who claimed their place of origin to be the Lower Yangtze region which included the Chiangnan area , and the basins
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