Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers /
edited by Stevan Harrell.
- 1 online resource (388 pages): ill., maps, digital file.
- Studies on ethnic groups in China .
- Studies on ethnic groups in China. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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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Acculturation--China. Ethnicity--China.
China--Social life and customs. China--Ethnic relations.