Wu Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-13-6022-0
Verlag: Springer Singapore
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Politics, Disciplines, and Public History
E-Book, Englisch, 229 Seiten
Reihe: New Directions in East Asian History
ISBN: 978-981-13-6022-0
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
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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 contradictions. 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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
The Chinese Nation and Nationalities as a Process of Collaborative Knowledge Production.- “Big Family of Fifty-Six Nationalities:” The Chinese Communist Conceptualization of Minzu (1921-1951).- Disciplines and Politics: From Malinowski to “People’s Anthropology”.- Inventing Primitive Society in Chinese Historiography and Ethnology.- Investigating Southern Minority Nationalities.- Collaboration and Resistance of Minority Elite: Huang Xianfan’s Struggle.- Telling Southern Minority Nationalities to the Public.- Epilogue: “Ghost Master” at Langde: Encountering Miao Shamanism.