Figure 9.26: Major ethnic groups of China. This map shows the areas traditionally occupied by the Han and by ethnic minorities. It does not show the recent resettling of Han in Xinjiang and Tibet, nor does it show the Hui, people from many ethnic groups whose ancestors converted to Islam and who are found in disparate locations along the old Silk Road and in coastal southeastern China.
[Source consulted: Chia
o-min Hsieh and Jean Kan Hsieh,
China: A Provincial Atlas (New York: Macmillan, 1995), p. 12.]