錫伯人族群意識的萌芽 以伊犁河流域的錫伯為中心 research-article Kicentai Central Asiatic Journal, Jahrgang 64 (2021), Ausgabe 1-2, Seite 103 - 118 In the sixteenth century, the Sibe people emerged as a unique ethnic group, and they remained a unique ethnic group after their migration to the Ili River basin. When after 1911 the Republic of China created many ethnic systems, the Sibe gained official recognition as an independent ethnic group. Although the creation of a writing system is an act of ethnic construction, the Sibe written language could never break free of its close relation with Manchu. The construction of ethnic groups and the creation of scripts stimulated the development of ethnic histories compiled by the Sibe scholars. It is due to their textual research on the origins of the Sibe that this people can now regard themselves as an ethnic group in its own right.