Coming to Terms with the Nation - Ethnic Classification in Modern China (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes, 18
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	Thomas S. Mullaney
Foreword by:	Benedict Anderson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-26278-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-520-26278-6
Barcode:	9780520262782

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