Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers edited by Morris Rossabi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossabi, Morris, Editor.

Contributor:

Rossabi, Morris.

funder.

Series:

Studies on ethnic groups in China.

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Government policy--China--Congresses.

Minorities.

China--Ethnic relations--Political aspects--Congresses.

China.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2004

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Rossabi Morris : Morris Rossabi is associate adjunct professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Mongols and Global History (W. W. Norton, 2010), Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (University of California Press, 2005), and Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (University of California Press, 1988).Morris Rossabi is professor of history at the City University of New York and visiting professor of East and Inner Asian History, Columbia University. Among his many publications are Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times and Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West. The contributors are Gardner Bovingdon, David Bachman, Uradyn E. Bulag, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Mette Halskov Hansen, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Jonathan Lipman.

Summary:

Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximatelyeight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five official "minority nationalities." However, minority culture suffered widespread destruction in the early decades of the People’s Republic of China, and minority areas still lag far behind Han (majority) areas economically.Since the mid-1990s, both domestic and foreign developments have refocused government attention on the inhabitants of China’s minority regions, their relationship to the Chinese state, and their foreign ties. Intense economic development of and Han settlement in China’s remote minority regions threaten to displace indigenous populations, post-Soviet establishment of independent countries composed mainly of Muslim and Turkic-speaking peoples presents questions for related groups in China, freedom of Mongolia from Soviet control raises the specter of a pan-Mongolian movement encompassing Chinese Mongols, and international groups press for a more autonomous or even independent Tibet.In Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, leading scholars examine the Chinese government’s administration of its ethnic minority regions, particularly border areas where ethnicity is at times a volatile issue and where separatist movements are feared. Seven essays focus on the Muslim Hui, multiethnic southwest China, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. Together these studies provide an overview of government relations with key minority populations, against which one can view evolving dialogues and disputes.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction - Morris Rossabi""; ""1/ White Hats, Oil Cakes, and Common Blood: The Hui in the Contemporary Chinese State - Jonathan N. Lipman""; ""2/ The Challenge of Sipsong Panna in the Southwest Development: Resources, and Power in a Multiethnic China - Mette Halskov Hansen""; ""3/ Inner Mongolia: The Dialectics of Colonization and Ethnicity Building - Uradyn E. Bulag""; ""4/ Heteronomy and Its Discontents: "Minzu Regional Autonomy" in Xinjiang - Gardner Bovingdon""

""5/ Making Xinjiang Safe for the Han? : Contradictions and Ironies of Chinese Governance in China's Northwest - David Bachman""""6/ Tibet and China in the Twentieth Century - Melvyn C. Goldstein""; ""7/ A Thorn in the Dragon's Side: Tibetan Buddhist Culture in China - Matthew T. Kapstein""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Papers presented at conference "China's Management of Its National Minorities," held in Washington, D.C., Feb. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-284) and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295804057

029580405X

OCLC:

878405468