Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in

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Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)

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.

Country	USA
Author	Thomas Mullaney
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520947634
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2010-11-04
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2010-12-15
Studio	University of California Press

Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)