Coming to Terms with the Nation Ethnic Classification in Modern China

Name: Coming to Terms with the Nation Ethnic Classification in Modern China
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ISBN: 9780520272743

ISBN-10: 0520272749

ISBN-13: 9780520272743

Edition: 2010

Authors: Thomas Mullaney, Benedict Anderson

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China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, orminzu,as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on recently declassified material and extensive oral histories to describe how the communist government, in power less than a decade, launched this process in ethnically diverse Yunnan. Mullaney shows how the government drew on…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson is the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government, and Asian Studies at Cornell University. His works include Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , L anguage and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia , and The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World .



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Identity Crisis in Postimperial China



Ethnicity as Language



Plausible Communities



The Consent of the Categorized



Counting to Fifty-Six


Conclusion: A History of the Future



Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1951, According to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission



Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1953, According to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission



Minzu Entries, 1953-1954 Census, by Population



Classification Squads, Phases One and Two



Population Sizes of Groups Researched during Phase One and Phase Two


Notes


Character Glossary


Bibliography


Index