1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959684903321

Autore

Mullaney Thomas S (Thomas Shawn)

Titolo

Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China / / Thomas S. Mullaney ; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

9786612917882

9781282917880

1282917889

9780520947634

0520947630

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 18

Disciplina

305.800951

Soggetti

Ethnology - China - History - 20th century

Ethnicity - China

Minorities - Government policy - China

China Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Identity crisis in postimperial China -- Ethnicity as language -- Plausible communities -- The consent of the categorized -- Counting to fifty-six -- Conclusion: a history of the future -- Appendix A: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1951, according to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission -- Appendix B: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1953, according to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission -- Appendix C: Minzu entries, 1953/1954 census, by population -- Appendix D: Classification squads, phases one and two -- Appendix E: Population sizes of groups researched during phase one and phase two.

Sommario/riassunto

China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on



recently declassified material and extensive oral histories to describe how the communist government, in power less than a decade, launched this process in ethnically diverse Yunnan. Mullaney shows how the government drew on Republican-era scholarship for conceptual and methodological inspiration as it developed a strategy for identifying minzu and how non-Party-member Chinese ethnologists produced a "scientific" survey that would become the basis for a policy on nationalities.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155358403321

Autore

Nkot Fabien

Titolo

L'année politique au Cameroun (2015) / / Nkot, Fabien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, France, : Harmattan Cameroun, 2016

ISBN

9782140018367

2140018362

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Harmattan Cameroun

Soggetti

Two thousand fifteen, A.D

Politics and government

Chronologies.

Cameroon Politics and government 21st century Chronology

Cameroon

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

La profusion mediatique nee du nouvel ordre mondial de l'information et de la communication est porteuse d'un paradoxe : de sa bourgade de Mbalmayo ou de Koza, en effet, le citoyen camerounais a desormais acces a une kyrielle de chaines de television etrangeres. Cette avalanche mediatique s'abat ainsi sur un citoyen plus ou moins desoriente, puisqu'elle lui fait davantage courir le risque de l'ivresse qu'elle ne lui assure une amelioration de ses connaissances. Cet ouvrage veut etre le repere ou le chercheur trouvera rassembles, sous



une forme chronologique, les faits majeurs ayant marque la vie politique du Cameroun.