1987/09/01 by Jeffrey Barlow · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies #Chinese history and philosophy #China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations #Vietnamese #Frontier #China #History #Period (music) #Independence (probability theory) #Ancient history #Political science #Art #Archaeology #Linguistics #Aesthetics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0022463400020543
openalex publication_date 1987/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The Zhuang of south China are the most numerous of the Chinese minority peoples. In Vietnam the Zhuang were identified historically as the Nung, and more recently as the combined Tay-Nung minority, the largest of Vietnam's 36 minority peoples. One of the most critical points in Zhuang history occurred in the Song era [960–1126 A.D.], when the expanding Han Chinese and the Vietnamese began to make a sustained impact in the Zhuang heartlands. Many Zhuang resisted foreign control, striving for continued independence. Their subsequent defeat meant that the Zhuang were never again to have an opportunity for autonomous development.