Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China / / Thomas S. Mullaney ; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson
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| Autore: |
Mullaney Thomas S (Thomas Shawn)
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| Titolo: |
Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China / / Thomas S. Mullaney ; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.800951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnology - China - History - 20th century |
| Ethnicity - China | |
| Minorities - Government policy - China | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Population |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1954 ethnic classification project |
| asia | |
| chinese government | |
| communist government | |
| controversial | |
| cultural histories | |
| distinct languages | |
| diversity | |
| ethnic classification | |
| ethnic communities | |
| ethnic histories | |
| ethnic nationalities | |
| ethnic representation | |
| ethnographers | |
| global politics | |
| minzu shibie | |
| minzu | |
| modern china | |
| modern history | |
| multiculturalism | |
| nationalism | |
| non party chinese ethnologists | |
| nonfiction | |
| oral histories | |
| policy on nationalities | |
| yunnan | |
| 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Ethnic classification in modern China |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Coming to terms with the nation |
| ISBN: | 1-282-91788-9 |
| 9786612917882 | |
| 0-520-94763-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819778803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 18.