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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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I. The historiography of ethnic identitiy -- The Naxi and the nationalities question / Charles F. McKhann -- The history of the history of the Yi / Stevan Harrell -- Defining the Miao : Ming, Qing, and contemporary views / Norma Diamond -- Making histories : contending conceptions of the Yao past / Ralph A. Litzinger -- Pere Vial and the Gni-pa̕ : orientalist scholarship and the Christian project / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger -- Part II. The history of ethnic identity -- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung -- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan -- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud -- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index. 
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