Chinese is a nationality and a culture, not a race. The race you are thinking of is Han. They are one of the many (officially recognized) races in the People's Republic of China. Read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Wang Lung is a good man and he treats his wife and sons without any thought to what they might want. He's not selfish or evil, the thought simply never occurs to him. That's solipsism, the belief you are the only being in the universe. The author was criticized in her lifetime for being more Chinese than the Chinese and writing a book they should have written. She was a missionary kid, a forgotten concept. Born and raised in China to white missionaries and was a native speaker and writer of Chinese. She grew up in the village she wrote about. It's a fantastic book even if you aren't in to China but if you are, there is no better place to start. I learned so much