Ethnicity and Language Quiz
Did you know that Mandarin, China's main language, is the most widely spoken language in the world? To learn more about Chinese languages and ethnicity take our ten-question quiz.
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Competing signs along Nathan Road.
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
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A woman stands near the corner of a commune building.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
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A pavilion, part of the home of famed Chinese poet Du Fu, is silhouetted against an orange twilight sky.
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
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Cutting of trees for firewood on the hillside above the Sherpa village of Namche Bazar.
Photograph by James P. Blair
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These Uygur people are a Muslim minority in a Communist-ruled nation.
Photograph by Bruce Dale
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View of two Chinese commune workers, probably members of the Mei Gia Wou Brigade, picking tea leaves from contoured rows of shrubs in a tea field.
Photograph by George F. Mobley
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Han Chinese family works on a state farm in China's west.
Photograph by Bruce Dale
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Saffron-robed Dai boys stand in front of a village temple.
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
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Close-up of Mao Tse-Tung buttons sold by a vendor at a junk market.
Photograph by Sidney Hastings
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Large group of Chinese children.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
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Ethnicity
Regulation by the People’s Republic of China
Religion
Written language
4
1
One-child policy
Migration policy
Universal language policy
Religious toleration policy
1
2
Literature
Parliament
Monasteries
Courts
1
3
Highlander
Easterner
Tibetan
Buddhist
2
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4
Tibetans
Turks
Koreans
Han
2
5
Apples
Beans
Squash
Potatoes
4
6
Ming
Qing
Yuan
Liao
1
7
Celebrating traditional holidays
Speaking native languages
Native farming practices
All of the above
4
8
Hunan
Hakka
Yue
Wu
1
9
100
167
235
381
3