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Mullaney, Thomas

 
9780520262782: Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520262786 ISBN 13 : 9780520262782
Editeur : University of California Press, 2010

Synopsis

China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on recently declassified material and extensive oral histories to describe how the communist government, in power less than a decade, launched this process in ethnically diverse Yunnan. Mullaney shows how the government drew on Republican-era scholarship for conceptual and methodological inspiration as it developed a strategy for identifying minzu and how non-Party-member Chinese ethnologists produced a "scientific" survey that would become the basis for a policy on nationalities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas S. Mullaney is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520262786
ISBN 13 
9780520262782
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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