Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

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Harrell, Stevan
University of Washington Press
EAN: 9780295804088
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088China'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 peoples 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.
EAN 9780295804088
ISBN 0295804084
Binding Ebook
Publisher University of Washington Press
Publication date December 1, 2011
Pages 388
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Harrell, Stevan
Series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
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