Based on Banks’ (2001a) theoretical framework of multiple group memberships, this paper compares the coverage of multicultural issues in primary school Chinese language textbooks in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Content analysis was used to examine how the textbooks present the issues of race/ethnicity, gender, nationality, social class, religion, and exceptionality/non-exceptionality. The results indicated both presented multicultural issues to some extent in a literalist or pluralist multicultural perspective by celebrating diversity of ethnic minorities, successful females, multiple families, developing countries, local issues, working class, folk religions and disability. However, the most content was still dominated by mainstream-centric concepts such as Han chauvinism, patriarchy, modernism, classism, ableism and orthodoxy. Overall, Taiwan’s textbooks performed better than Hong Kong’s with a greater diversity of races and ethnicities, a wider range of nations, more gender-balanced, less celebratory of the upper class, and with more differences among religions.