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Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Other contributors are Wurlig Borchigud, Siu-woo Cheung, Norma Diamond, Shih-chung Hsieh, Almaz Khan, Ralph A. Litzinger, Charles F. McKhann, Shelley Rigger, and Margaret Byrne Swain.
List of contents
Introduction: Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to them
Part One | The Historiography of Ethnic Identity: Scholarly & Official Discourses
1. The Naxi and the Nationalities Question
2. The History of the History of the Yi
3. Defining the Miao
4. Making Histories
5. Pere Vial and the Gni-P'a: Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project
6. Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935
Part Two | The History of Ethnic Identity: The Process of Peoples
1. Millenarianism, Christian Movements, & Ethnic Change Among the Miao in Southwest China
2. Chinggis Khan: From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero
3. The Impact of Urban Ethnic Education on Modern Mognolian Ethnicity, 1940-1966
4. On the Dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue Ethnicity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis
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References
Contributors
Index
About the author
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.
Summary
Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, live a variety of people of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. This title provides material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building.
