Since a nationstate determines its borderland according to the conception of its center, a history of China and history of Chinese ethnics written based on ethnology cannot avoid internal logical contradictions to reach a theoretical selfestablishment. The conversion between “borderland” and “core area” of the Silk Road economic belt calls for offering a new theoretical perspective. As a “view of Greater China” exceeding the uniline ethnological view of history, “the regional China” expresses the relationship between “commonality of the Chinese nation” and “borderland” from a more tolerable, more diverse and more integrate spatial dimension. The construction of multidimension “borderland” contains an attempt to express its own history by resorting to Chinese experience of its own.

spatiality; borderland; core area; the Silk Road; “the commonality of the Chinese nation”; “the regional China”; historical construction