Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers /

Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers /

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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Acculturation > China.
Ethnicity > China.
China > Social life and customs.
China > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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