China a civilization state rather than a nation state

China is really not a nation state, even though most of the Chinese governments in the past 200 years assumed it as a nation state, but it is not. The concept of Chinese to be Chinese, a group of people, was built in more than 3000 years even before the time of the birth of Jesus. What a amazing things! The Chinese have been all be Chinese for thousands of years, during the time when the European was breakdown(the fragmentation of the Holy Rome Empire) and never have been a whole ever since. Actually China is not always governed by the Han(most of the Chinese are) in the history, like Yuan dynasty and Qing dynasty. In the Yuan dynasty, millions of the Chinese were killed, but the China remained. At present, China is oldest country in the world since most of ancient civilizations were destroyed, like old India. The reason that the China can remain is due to its civilization---- a very distinctive notion of the family, social relationship "guanxi" and Confucian Values.

In fact, Qing who made the China become a whole is not a tradition Chinese. He is an ethnic from the main race in China Han. However, since his countries learnt Chinese culture and he weared Chinese clothes, so the leaders of other countries think his country is a part of China. When Chinese met other countries did not follow the rule of Chinese culture, the leaders of the country would conquer their lands or view them as enemies. Old Korea was learning for the China so in the ancient map of China, Korea was a land belong to the China.

Even though the dynasties are changed, the rulers were using the system of the countries created by Han. Throughout the increase in learning the culture of Han, those races would become a part of Han. For example, if you see a Chinese whose last name is Hu, his/her great great great great great great great great great may not a Han, but he or she is a Han in the Chinese id card.