Narrating southern Chinese minority nationalities :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
politics, disciplines, and public history /
First Statement of Responsibility
Guo Wu.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Singapore :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2019]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
New directions in East Asian history,
ISSN of Series
2522-0209
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. The Chinese Nation and Nationalities as a Process of Collaborative Knowledge Production -- 2. "Big Family of Fifty-Six Nationalities:" The Chinese Communist Conceptualization of Minzu (1921-1951) -- 3. Disciplines and Politics: From Malinowski to "People's Anthropology" -- 4. Inventing Primitive Society in Chinese Historiography and Ethnology -- 5. Investigating Southern Minority Nationalities -- 6. Collaboration and Resistance of Minority Elite: Huang Xianfan's Struggle -- 7. Telling Southern Minority Nationalities to the Public -- Epilogue: "Ghost Master" at Langde: Encountering Miao Shamanism -- Bibliography -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is rooted in modern China's quest for national integration and political authority. However, it also highlights the fact that the complex process of conceptualizing, investigating, classifying, curating, and writing minority history has been fraught with disputes and contradications. As such, the book offers a timely contribution to the current debate in the fields of twentieth-century Chinese nationalism, minority policy, and anthropological practice--back cover.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Springer Nature
Stock Number
com.springer.onix.9789811360220
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Minorities-- China.
Ethnic groups.
Ethnology.
Minorities.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.