Family Portraits of all 56 ethnic groups in China

China are inhabited by an indigenous population

of ethnic Vietnamese people (or Kinh).

They are referred to in Chinese as the Jīng (京族)

Family Portraits of all 56 ethnic groups in China (reposted from ChinaHush and ChinaGate])

[ChinaGate] This is a “Family Portrait” of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Chen Haiwen, a photographer, recently lead a team of 14 photographers to create a book entitled, “Harmonious China: A Sketch of China’s 56 Ethnicities.” The team spent one year travelling all over China to complete the project. They ended up taking over 5.7 million photographs.

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A Factural or Real Conditional Sentence:

(1) the dependent conditional clause (IF + subject + present tense verb)

(2) the independent result clause (subject + present tense verb)

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