I am a bit surprised, why non-Hans of China never used the name Zhongguo for China.
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The same Manchus almost doubled the size of China compared the size of China during Ming Empire and your modern perception of China is based on the same territory empire created by Qing Empire of Manchus, not the one created by Zhou, Qin, Han or Ming.
I'm a bit surprised that the sources I have been posting countless time are so easily ignored:
[元史 History of Yuan]
鐵木兒塔識曰:「刺探在敵國固有之,今六合一家,何以刺探為?設果有之,正可令睹中國之盛,歸告其主,使知向化。」
鐵木兒塔識 (son of Toqto'a): "Such action of spying on your enemy state is no double expected, but since the world is now a united family, why would they even do such thing? Even if they are really spying on us, let them be. For they will see how great
China 中國 (Zhongguo) is and report it to their king and let him obey (us)."
至元二十七年,帝怒,欲再發兵,丞相完澤、平章不忽木言:「蠻夷小邦,不足以勞
中國 (Zhongguo)。張立道嘗再使安南有功,今復使往,宜無不奉命。」
[Nerchinsk Treaty]
「...將流入黑龍江之額爾古納河為界。河之南岸、屬於
中國(Zhongguo)。河之北岸、屬於鄂羅斯。」
"Argun river will be set as the border (between the two countries). The land from the south of the river belongs to
China; the land from the north of the river belongs to Russia."
「...(逆賊)不知本朝之為滿洲,猶
中國(Zhongguo)之有籍貫。」
"(traitors) are so foolish that they don't even understand that Manchu is a part of
China."
--Yongzheng, emperor of Qing Dynasty.
Guess who said these words against Manchus.
“In order to restore our national independence, we must first restore the Chinese nation. In order to restore the Chinese nation, we must drive the barbarian Manchus back to the Changbai Mountains. In order to get rid of the barbarians, we must first overthrow the present tyrannical, dictatorial, ugly and corrupt Qing government.”
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Wholegrain has said that : [And what does this have to do with the fact that the Manchus considered
themselves to be Chinese?]
Also should I remind you that the GMD has quickly corrected the proposition of the rebellion from "Han chauvinism" to "Republic of five nationalities" - which is the foundation and the core value of the Republic of China?