> Indigenous peoples ’ movements

As an empire-turned modern state, the Peoples ’ Republic of China has sought to integrate peoples within its territory under the banner of common citizenship. The subsequent state project implemented policies based on subjects ’ minzu identity. The PRC constitutionally proclaims itself ‘a unitary, multi-minzu socialist state ’ – the Chinese nation (zhonghua minzu) comprised of the Han majority and 55 other officially recognized ‘nationalities’. By Xu Yuan Minorities in a multi-minzu state Popularised in the early twentieth cen-tury by Sun Yat-sen, the founder of republican China, the term minzu can variously be translated as nation, nation-ality, ethnic group, ethnic minority (or minority nationality) or people. The state-sponsored project of ‘minzu iden