How did ethnic minorities in China react to the overthrow of the Qing?

by LordSomething
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Much of the Xinhai Revolution was very outwardly Han nationalist in nature, even though the promotion of "zhonghua minzhu" is not necessarily the same as "han". Mongolia and Tibet declared independence after the Xinhai Revolution and declined to join the Republic of China due to fear of Han chauvinism. Later Tibet was annexed by the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, but Mongolia remained independent due to Soviet influence. There were violent reappraisals against Manchu people across the country, in some cases entire populations were massacred. Soon after though, the Republic seems to have promoted an idea of a multi-ethnic China (Five Races Under One Flag) and the hatred seems to have stopped. Nevertheless this appears to have begun the the process of assimilation of Manchus into Han society, and the association with Manchus with the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo didn't help. The Zhuang people seemed to have been mostly involved with the revolution on the Anti-Qing side, and earlier the Taiping Rebellion had broken out in Guangxi. As for Hui and Uyghurs I'm not entirely sure.