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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484547403321

Autore

Wu Guo

Titolo

Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities : Politics, Disciplines, and Public History / / by Guo Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

981-13-6022-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Collana

New Directions in East Asian History, , 2522-0195

Disciplina

951.004

Soggetti

Ethnology

World politics

China—History

History, Modern

Sociology

Intellectual life—History

Political History

History of China

Modern History

Knowledge - Discourse

Intellectual Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Chinese Nation and Nationalities as a Process of Collaborative Knowledge Production -- “Big Family of Fifty-Six Nationalities:” The Chinese Communist Conceptualization of Minzu (1921-1951) -- Disciplines and Politics: From Malinowski to “People’s Anthropology” -- Inventing Primitive Society in Chinese Historiography and Ethnology -- Investigating Southern Minority Nationalities -- Collaboration and Resistance of Minority Elite: Huang Xianfan’s Struggle -- Telling Southern Minority Nationalities to the Public -- Epilogue: “Ghost Master” at Langde: Encountering Miao Shamanism.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a



unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is rooted in modern China's quest for national integration and political authority. However, it also highlights the fact that the complex process of conceptualizing, investigating, classifying, curating, and writing minority history has been fraught with disputes and contradictions. As such, the book offers a timely contribution to the current debate in the fields of twentieth-century Chinese nationalism, minority policy, and anthropological practice.