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Record Nr.

UNINA9910310645803321

Autore

Harrell Stevan

Titolo

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers / edited by Stevan Harrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Washington Press, 2011

Seattle, Wash. : , : University of Washington Press, , [1995]

©[1995]

ISBN

9780295804088

0295804084

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 379 p. : ill., maps

Collana

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrellStevan

Disciplina

305.8/00951

Soggetti

Acculturation - China

Ethnicity - China

China Social life and customs

China Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I. The historiography of ethnic identity -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.