Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers /

A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center an...

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Corporate Author: Project Muse
Other Authors: Harrell, Stevan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, [1995]
Series:Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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Summary:A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center and the peripheral peoples has its ideological basis in the center's claim to a superior degree of civilization, along with a commitment to raise the peripheral peoples' civilization to the level of the center, or at least closer to that level.
Item Description:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Physical Description:1 online resource (388 pages): ill., maps, digital file.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-366) and index.
ISBN:9780295804088
Access:Open Access