国民革命与少数民族问题

The Relationship between the National Revolution and the Minority Nationalities

中华民族由汉族和几十个少数民族共同组成。不过,少数民族既非一个单独民族的称谓,又非如中华民族具有广泛自我认同的民族总称,而是占人口绝大多数的汉族对其他民族最为常用的统称。学界对少数民族的研究,倾力于几十个民族实体,较少关注它从概念提出至广泛使用再到被接受的整体过程。探析国民革命时期少数民族观念产生、演化的早期经历及其具体所指,对理解后来的民族观念和问题具有不可或缺的重要作用。

The Chinese nation consists of the Han nationality and several dozen minorities.Anyhow,the minorities are not the name of any single minority nation,or a general designation like that of Han nationality which occupy overwhelming majority of population.The studies of minorities in China's academic circles,however,focus on the entity of several dozens nations,pay little attention to the overall process of the concept of minorities from putting it forward to widely using it and accepting it.It is important to be aware of and approach to the process in which the concept of minority nations appeared and developed during the period of National Revolution,so as to research the exact referent of the term 'minority',which will be helpful for understanding the sense of nation and the relevant problems in our study.