The Manchu people are China’s third-largest ethnic group, ruling over the entire country from 1644, when they established the Qing Dynasty, until 1911, when China became a republic. Their language, ...

Nowadays, fewer than 100 people are believed to be native speakers of Manchu, the largest cluster of them in a single isolated village, Sanjiazi, in northeastern China. “Only the old people can ...

BEIJING — For most of this century, being a Manchu meant suffering shame, discrimination and abuse. Although the tribe of horseback warriors had conquered China in the 17th century, founding … ...

Following the Manchu people' southward migration, the common people came to wear the same kind of dress as their Han counterparts, while the Manchu gown was adopted by Han women generally.

Research has found that the Han people used to hate Manchu, during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), because the Communist party labeled Manchu people as an oppressive enemy class.

Liu Guizhi (first from left), a third-generation inheritor of Benxi Manchu paper-cutting, demonstrates the traditional craft to international paper-cutting enthusiasts. Benxi Manchu paper-cutting ...

Ethnic hatred exists in almost every culture. The history of some hatreds may go back hundreds, or even thousands of years. As people growing up in China, we find that the relationship between Han ...