Communist Multiculturalism Ethnic Revival in Southwest China / Susan K. McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Susan K.

Contributor:

University of Washington. Libraries, Funder.

Series:

Studies on ethnic groups in China.

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hui (Chinese people)--China--Yunnan Sheng.

Hui (Chinese people).

Bai (Chinese people)--China--Yunnan Sheng.

Bai (Chinese people).

Tai (Southeast Asian people)--China--Yunnan Sheng.

Tai (Southeast Asian people).

Yunnan Sheng (China)--Ethnic relations.

Yunnan Sheng (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2009

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2009.

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.

Summary:

The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.

Contents:

Culture, the nation, and Chinese minority identity

The Dai, Bai, and Hui in historical perspective

Dharma and development among the Xishuangbanna Dai

The Bai and the tradition of modernity

Authenticity, identity, and tradition among the Hui.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295800417

0295800410

OCLC:

774399879

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access