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AAAS384/HIST384 Minorities in China and Beyond
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Books in Bartle Library
- 泰族僮族粤族考 = Study of the Thais Chuangs and Cantonese people /香港 : 香港世界書局 byCall Number: Bartle Library Stacks (DS509.5.T3 X82 1963 )
- The Thai peoples Erik Seidenfaden 1881-1958. Bangkok : The Siam SocietyCall Number: Bartle Library Stacks (DS560 .S4 1963 )
- Minorities of Southwest China byCall Number: Bartle Library Stacks (DS730 .D45 1980 )ISBN: 0875362508
Autonomy, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Southwestern China by
This book examines the three different channels by which the Chinese state reaches out to ethnic communities: autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty.
Call Number: Bartle Library Stacks --DS730 .S522 2007ISBN: 1403984468- 西南山地文化考察记. 潘年英, 1963- ; 北京市 : 学苑出版社Call Number: Bartle Library Stacks (DS793.K8 P356 2010)
- In unknown China; a record of the observations, adventures and experiences of a pioneer missionary during a prolonged sojourn amongst the wild and unknown Nosu tribe of western China. Samuel Pollard 1864-1915. London, Seeley, Service & co. ltd. 1921Call Number: Bartle Library Stacks (DS793.N7 P7)
- Ethnicity Education and Empowerment by Eight per cent of China's population is comprised of ethnic minority people, people with cultures that are distinct from the majority Chinese. This work is about the tiny segment of ethnic minority youth in China who overcome obstacles to achieve educational success and win admittance to universities. These students construct identities that allow them to do well in school. The students discover ways to function effectively in a second culture, using language other than their native one.Call Number: Bartle Library Stacks (LC3737.C6 L44 2001)ISBN: 0754611388
- 嶺表紀蠻. 劉錫蕃. ; Xifan Liu 上海 : 上海書店 Subjects: Minorities -- China -- Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu; Tanka (Chinese people); Yi (Chinese people); Ethnology -- China; Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China) -- Ethnic relations; China -- Ethnic relationsCall Number: Library Annex Stacks --AC149 .M56 ser.3 v.18
Communist Multiculturalism by
The 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.
Call Number: SUNY Shared Collection Albany (Available via InterLibrary LoanISBN: 9780295989082Publication Date: 2009
Reading on Ethnic Groups
Creating the Zhuang by
This study unveils the unique culture of the Zhuang people, China's largest ethnic minority. At the same time, it shows the Chinese Communist Party's skilful balancing of ethnic and regional loyalties during the second half of the 20th century to integrate the diversity of China's ethnic mosaic.
Call Number: Bartle Library Stacks --DS731.C5 K38 2000ISBN: 1555878865
Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China by
Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China is a remarkable collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society, and recent social changes. In addition to being valuable as an ethnographic study, this book is also an experiment in communication among three discourses: the cosmopolitan disciplines of history and the social sciences, the Chinese discourse of ethnology and ethnohistory, and the Yi folk discourse of genealogy and ritual. This book uses the case of the Yi to conduct an international conversation across formerly isolated disciplines.
Call Number: Bartle Library Stacks --DS731.Y5 P47 2001ISBN: 0520219899
The Art of Ethnography by
The Art of Ethnography is a fully illustrated translation of a "Miao album" -- a Chinese genre originating in the eighteenth century that used prose, poetry, and detailed illustrations to represent minority ethnic groups living in frontier regions under imperial Chinese control. These bound collections of hand-painted illustrations and handwritten text reveal how imperial China viewed culturally "other" frontier populations. They also contain valuable information for anthropologists, geographers, and historians, and are coveted by art collectors for their beautiful imagery. "Miao" in this context refers not just to groups that called themselves Miao (Hmong) or were classified as such by the majority Han culture, but generally to the many minority peoples in China's southwest. This lovely volume reproduces each of the eighty-two illustrations from the original album and the corresponding Chinese calligraphic text, along with an annotated English translation. Each entry depicts a different ethnic group residing in Guizhou. The album is anonymous and dates from sometime after 1797. Laura Hostetler's Introduction discusses the genesis and evolution of the Miao album genre and the sociopolitical context in which the albums were first made, the ethnographic content of the texts, the composition of the illustrations, and the albums' authorship and production. She situates the albums within the context of early modern imperial expansion internationally by introducing comparative examples of Japanese and Ottoman ethnography. Color illustrations from other Miao albums and comparable works from other cultures give the reader a sense of the chromatic richness of Miao album illustrations and of their place in world ethnography.
Call Number: Main Reserves Reader Services Desk (DS793.K8 A77 2006 )ISBN: 0295985437
