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In current times, the Han-speaking peoples are the largest entnic group in the world. For most of its history, what we know as the Chinese civilization, despite having many ethnic groups, has been dominated by the culture and language of the civilization of Zhongyuan, the Northern China Plain. However, in history, there were many other cultures in what now we consider China, including the Baiyue and of course those who live in the periphery of China proper, like Tibetans, Mongols, that did not have Chinese languages and customs. These have been, for the most part, sincinized. Could those cultures avoid sinification and build their own states and empires? What would be the butterflies of a China disunited in culture and politics?
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