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China has for the majority of it's history been a northern Mandarin Chinese oriented country. So it's not exactly a shock they'd push for this.

• bmn__ 5y ago
  > China has for the majority of it's history been a northern Mandarin Chinese oriented country. That claim is incompatible with historic records and linguistic scrutiny. Northern Mandarin developed only in the recent ca. 500 years, so that cannot be a majority. Middle Qing until early Republican era was oriented around eastern (i.e. Nanking) Mandarin. The process of displacing eastern with northern started in ca. 1850 and was complete a hundred years later.
  • MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
    ...There was about 4000 years of Chinese history based around the Yangtze river valley, particularly north of it, as well as the main hub of the Qin dynasty. China has been a northern focused entity for almost it's entire existence, especially since Qin. That also includes the Qing and Yuan. Even the Ming were centralized in Beijing for a large portion of it's existence.
    • bmn__ 5y ago
      You are confusing a geographic region with a language.
      • MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
        I meant Han Chinese. My bad.