Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities

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.

“The book is clearly written, well researched and documented (based on fieldwork, archival research and interviews). This makes Guo Wu’s study a fundamental contribution to historiography on its subject and an enriching reading for both scholars and advanced students of Asian Politics, China Politics and International Relations, in general. … the work is timely in light of some recent events. Here it suffices to refer to the so-called Xinjiang Papers, a 400-page report, possibly leaked from a high level source within the Chinese Communist Party … .” (Barbara Onnis, Asia Maior, asiamaior.org, Vol. 30, 2019)