The usage for the Chinese ethnicity first appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, claiming the Han dynasty as one of the golden ages of Chinese history.
1950, Lubor Hájek,Chinese Art[1], Czechoslovakia: Spring Books,→OCLC,page41:
According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from earlyHan tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province.
1977, Li Yu-ning,Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China[2],M. E. Sharpe, pagexxxiii:
The eclectism of political thought during theHan is reflected in Liu Hsiang's evaluation of Shang Yang.
2021 November 26, Elizabeth Grenier, “Ai Weiwei on surviving captivity”, inDeutsche Welle[3], archived fromthe original on26 November 2021, Arts[4]:
Ai quickly became renowned for provocative works, which included smashing a million-dollarHan Dynasty Urn in 1995.
1995, Rong Ma, edited by Calvin Goldscheider,Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building)[5],Westview Press,→ISBN, page50:
Trade was the major economic link between Tibet and other regions in China. Special economic systems (estate, serfdom) made it impossible forHan immigrants to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry in Tibet. The geographic features of the plateau (high elevation, rarefied air, mountains, etc.) limited the volume of trade and migration between Tibet and other regions.
2006, Sheila Hollihan-Elliot,Muslims in China[6], Mason Crest Publishers,→ISBN, page55:
According to the 2000 census, theHan make up 92 percent of China's population; the minority groups combine for about 8 percent (about 106 million people).
2023 March 29, Han Guan Ng, Huizhong Wu, Olivia Zhang, “Former Taiwan leader Ma views Sun Yat-sen tomb in China tour”, inAP News[7], archived fromthe original on28 March 2023[8]:
“The people of both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the Chinese nation, are children of Yandi and the Yellow Emperor,” he told a group of Chinese and Taiwanese reporters who had been allowed to follow him on the trip, referring to mythical emperors revered as founders of China’s dominantHan ethnicity.
1902 January 5, L. S. Wilcox, “Conditions in Hankow.; American Trade on the Pacific and the far East”, inThe New York Times[9],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on18 September 2023, ANNUAL, page23[10]:
Hankow, China, is located 600 miles from the coast, on the north bank of the Yang-tse-Kiang River, at its junction with theHan River.
2014 September 9, Stian Reklev, Kathy Chen, “Quenching Beijing's thirst may stunt regional growth”, in Michael Perry, editor,Reuters[11], archived fromthe original on27 May 2022, Industry, Materials and Utilities[12]:
“By transferring such a significant volume of water away from theHan River Basin, the project is depriving the area of the most basic input it will need to develop in the years and decades to come,” said Britt Crow-Miller, a research assistant professor at Portland State University.[…] The Danjiangkou reservoir gets its water from theHan River, a tributary of the Yangtze River which feeds several major cities in central China such as Wuhan, an economic power house in Hubei province sporting a $144 billion GDP.
2020 October 14, Wang Shu-fen, Matthew Mazzetta, “Kaohsiung nixes proposal to adopt Hanyu Pinyin street signs”, inFocus Taiwan[13], archived fromthe original on16 October 2020, Society[14]:
In May 2019, former Kaohsiung MayorHan Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) proposed adopting the Hanyu Pinyin system for the city's street signs at an estimated cost of NT$73 million (US$2.54 million), though the plan was ultimately delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Han left office after losing a recall vote on June 6.
According to the 2010 United States Census,Han is the 1,182nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 29,847 individuals.Han is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (92.67%) individuals.
