Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities

Politics, Disciplines, and Public History

Guo Wu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

229 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-6021-3 (ISBN)

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Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is rooted in modern China's quest for national integration and political authority. However, it also highlights the fact that the complex process of conceptualizing, investigating, classifying, curating, and writing minority history has been fraught with disputes and contradictions. As such, the book offers a timely contribution to the current debate in the fields of twentieth-century Chinese nationalism, minority policy, and anthropological practice.

Guo Wu is Associate Professor of History at Allegheny College, USA. He obtained his PhD in history in 2006 from the State University of New York at Albany and has been teaching at Allegheny College. His publications include one research monograph and multiple articles focusing on late imperial and 20th century China.

The Chinese Nation and Nationalities as a Process of Collaborative Knowledge Production.- “Big Family of Fifty-Six Nationalities:” The Chinese Communist Conceptualization of Minzu (1921-1951).- Disciplines and Politics: From Malinowski to “People’s Anthropology”.- Inventing Primitive Society in Chinese Historiography and Ethnology.- Investigating Southern Minority Nationalities.- Collaboration and Resistance of Minority Elite: Huang Xianfan’s Struggle.- Telling Southern Minority Nationalities to the Public.- Epilogue: “Ghost Master” at Langde: Encountering Miao Shamanism.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in East Asian History
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 229 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	981-13-6021-9 / 9811360219
ISBN-13	978-981-13-6021-3 / 9789811360213
Zustand	Neuware