1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996397580903316

Autore

Meriton George <1634-1711.>

Titolo

A guide for constables, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the high-ways, treasurers of the county-stock, masters of the house of correction, bayliffs of mannors, toll-takers in fairs &c [[electronic resource] ] : a treatise briefly shewing the extent and latitude of the several offices, with the power of the officers therein, both by common law and statute, according to the several additions and alterations of the law / / collected by Geo. Meriton .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for John Norton, 1681

Edizione

[The sixth edition enlarged.]

Descrizione fisica

[12], 286 p

Soggetti

Justice, Administration of - England

Constables - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Conductor Generalis" p. [123] has separate t.p. with imprint: London : s.n., 1681.

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

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.