Communist Multiculturalism

Ethnic Revival in Southwest China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Av Susan McCarthy, Susan Mccarthy

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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-10-27
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaCommunist Multiculturalism
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
MedarbetareHarrell,Stevan
ISBN9780295989082

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Marxism och kommunism inom Samhalle och politik
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Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.

"Make[s] important contributions to the existing perspectives on China's ethnic minorities not least for their new rich ethnographies and research findings. One . . . major input is the exploration of the 'big' questions on Chinese national identity, citizenship, and modernity from the perspective of ethnic minorities."- Elena Barabantseva (Asian Ethnicity) "McCarthy's fine study is an important new contribution to evolving understandings of 'multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics,' forcing readers to contemplate how completing forms of ethnic nationalism interacts with shared forms of citizenship practice. This book is a must-read for both scholars and students of ethnic relations in Reform-era-China."(The China Journal)