Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Published: 05 September 2000
- Format: Paperback 388 pages
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- Categories: Ethnic Studies | Sociology & Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Asian History
- ISBN 13: 9780295975283 ISBN 10: 0295975288
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Full description for Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers
China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of people of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. "Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers" provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists. 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.
