Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers edited by Stevan Harrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrell, Stevan.

Contributor:

Harrell, Stevan.

funder.

Series:

Studies on ethnic groups in China.

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation--China.

Acculturation.

Ethnicity--China.

Ethnicity.

China--Social life and customs.

China.

China--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

viii, 379 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2011

Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Harrell Stevan : Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Other contributors are Wurlig Borchigud, Siu-woo Cheung, Norma Diamond, Shih-chung Hsieh, Almaz Khan, Ralph A. Litzinger, Charles F. McKhann, Shelley Rigger, and Margaret Byrne Swain.

Summary:

A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center and the peripheral peoples has its ideological basis in the center's claim to a superior degree of civilization, along with a commitment to raise the peripheral peoples' civilization to the level of the center, or at least closer to that level.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. The historiography of ethnic identity

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-pa̕ : orientalist scholarship and the Christian project / Margaret Byrne Swain

Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger

Part II. The history of ethnic identity

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

On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh

Glossary

References

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-366) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295804088

0295804084

OCLC:

558428462

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06365 hdl

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access