Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers / edited by Stevan Harrell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on ethnic groups in China | Studies on ethnic groups in China | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, [1995]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©[1995]Description: 1 online resource (388 pages): ill., maps, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295804088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.8/00951 20
LOC classification:
  • GN635.C5 C85 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. The historiography of ethnic identitiy -- The Naxi and the nationalities question / Charles F. McKhann -- The history of the history of the Yi / Stevan Harrell -- Defining the Miao : Ming, Qing, and contemporary views / Norma Diamond -- Making histories : contending conceptions of the Yao past / Ralph A. Litzinger -- Pere Vial and the Gni-pa̕ : orientalist scholarship and the Christian project / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger -- Part II. The history of ethnic identity -- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung -- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan -- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud -- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center and the peripheral peoples has its ideological basis in the center's claim to a superior degree of civilization, along with a commitment to raise the peripheral peoples' civilization to the level of the center, or at least closer to that level.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-366) and index.

Introduction -- Part I. The historiography of ethnic identitiy -- The Naxi and the nationalities question / Charles F. McKhann -- The history of the history of the Yi / Stevan Harrell -- Defining the Miao : Ming, Qing, and contemporary views / Norma Diamond -- Making histories : contending conceptions of the Yao past / Ralph A. Litzinger -- Pere Vial and the Gni-pa̕ : orientalist scholarship and the Christian project / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger -- Part II. The history of ethnic identity -- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung -- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan -- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud -- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

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A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center and the peripheral peoples has its ideological basis in the center's claim to a superior degree of civilization, along with a commitment to raise the peripheral peoples' civilization to the level of the center, or at least closer to that level.

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