ISBN:
9780520947634
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Ser v.18
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800951
Keywords:
Minorities Government policy
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Ethnicity
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Ethnology History 20th century
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China ; Population
;
Ethnicity ; China
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Ethnology ; China ; History ; 20th century
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Minorities ; Government policy ; China
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Electronic books
;
China Population
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 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.
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