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Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China / Thomas S. Mullaney; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson

Mullaney, Thomas S., 1978-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011

Online Ressource (xxiv, 232 p.) : ill., maps.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-215) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) : Coming to terms with the nation. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-520-94763-4 (electronic bk.); 0-520-94763-0 (electronic bk.)

0-520-94763-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-27274-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 0-520-26278-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

9780520272743

OCoLC: 695991316 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

DS730

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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)