Chinese nationalism has persistently conflated ethnicity, nation, and race

Evidence

It is not suggested here that race was the only significant form of identity available in China, but that notions of ethnicity, nation, and race have often been conflated in the politics of nationalism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3358

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the three analytic categories while noting their routine political conflation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3358
• XREF: connects to: Sinhala language conflates nation, race, and people so deeply that multiethnic polity seems incomprehensible — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 190