| Description |
xiii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies on ethnic groups in China |
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Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to Them / Stevan Harrell -- Pt. I. The Historiography of Ethnic Identity: Scholarly and Official Discourses. The Naxi and the Nationalities Question / Charles F. McKhann. The History of the History of the Yi / Stevan Harrell. Defining the Miao: Ming, Qing, and Contemporary Views / Norma Diamond. Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past / Ralph A. Litzinger. Pere Vial and the GNI-P'A: Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project / Margaret Byrne Swain. Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger -- Pt. II. The History of Ethnic Identity: The Process of Peoples. Millenarianism, Christian Movements, and Ethnic Change Among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung. Chinggis Khan: From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero / Almaz Khan. The Impact of Urban Ethnic Education on Modern Mongolian Ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud |
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On the Dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue Ethnicity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-366) and index |
| Subject |
Acculturation -- China.
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Ethnicity -- China.
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Minorities -- China -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114677
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China -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024186
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| Author |
Harrell, Stevan.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
94015697 |
| ISBN |
0295973803 |
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