Coming to Terms with the Nation

Ethnic Classification in Modern China

AvThomas Mullaney

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Del 18 i serien Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of California Press
Medarbetare:Benedict Anderson
ISBN:9780520262782

Utforska kategorier

Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

"This rich, nuanced and erudite book is a great accomplishment." -- Elena Barabantseva University of Manchester The China Journal "A very important contribution to our understanding of the birth of the modern Chinese nation." -- Jeff Kyong-McClain Journal Of World History "An exemplary piece of scholarship... Tackles broad historiographical questions with a manageable and concrete set of new data." -- Howard Chiang, Princeton University British Jrnl For The History Of Science "Brief but elegantly argued... Mullaney makes brilliant sense of mountains of data." -- Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University Hist Stds In The Natural Sciences "Mullaney's excellent book teaches us a great deal about the genesis of multiethnic China..." -- Sara A. Newland Pacific Affairs

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Identity Crisis in Postimperial China 2. Ethnicity as Language 3. Plausible Communities 4. The Consent of the Categorized 5. Counting to Fifty-Six Conclusion: A History of the Future Appendix A: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1951, According to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission Appendix B: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1953, According to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission Appendix C: Minzu Entries, 1953--1954 Census, by Population Appendix D: Classification Squads, Phases One and Two Appendix E: Population Sizes of Groups Researched during Phase One and Phase Two Notes Character Glossary Bibliography Index