Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan
Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan
Melissa J. Brown, ed.
These essays address related facets of the shifting and fluid process of negotiation that is the real nature of ethnic relations in China, past and present, and by extension in the rest of the world. The volume concerns itself both with the overarching identity, first cultural and then national, that we now call "Chinese" and with its constituent ethnicites, including both the majority, which we now call "Han," and various minority or peripheral identities.
As a nonprofit academic press, we need your support to publish our books. Your gift can help us make more of our titles available as e-books. DONATE NOW
Title information
These essays address related facets of the shifting and fluid process of negotiation that is the real nature of ethnic relations in China, past and present, and by extension in the rest of the world. The volume concerns itself both with the overarching identity, first cultural and then national, that we now call "Chinese" and with its constituent ethnicites, including both the majority, which we now call "Han," and various minority or peripheral identities.
Contributors:
Stevan Harrell
Patricia Ebrey
Melissa J. Brown
Hai Ren
Janet L. Upton
Almaz Khan
Wurlig Borchigud
Keng-Fong Pang
Emily Chao
Siu-woo Cheung
Melissa J. Brown, ed.
Melissa J. Brown is currently a research affiliate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, and editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.
B.A. Stanford University, M.A. Stanford University, Ph.D. University of Washington
Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan
Foreword – vii
Thomas B. Gold
Preface – ix
Introduction – 1
Stevan Harrell
1. Surnames and Han Chinese Identity – 11
Patricia Ebrey
2. On Becoming Chinese – 37
Melissa J. Brown
3. Taiwan and the Impossibility of the Chinese – 75
Hai Ren
4. Home on the Grasslands? Tradition, Modernity, and the Negotiation of Identity by Tibetan Intellectuals in the PRC – 98
Janet L. Upton
5. Who are the Mongols? State, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Representation in the PRC – 125
Almaz Khan
6. Transgressing Ethnic and National Boundaries: Contemporary "Inner Mongolian" Identities in China – 160
Wurlig Borchigud
7. Being Hui, Huan-nang, and Utsat Simultaneously: Contextualizing History and Identities of the Austronesian-speaking Hainan Muslims – 183
Keng-Fong Pang
8. Hegemony, Agency, and Re-presenting the Past: The Invention of Dongba Culture among the Naxi of Southwest China – 208
Emily Chao
9. Representation and Negotiation of Ge Identities in Southeast Guizhou – 240
Siu-woo Cheung
10. The Nationalities Question and the Prmi Prblem – 274
Stevan Harrell
Character List – 297
Index – 305
|
JOURNAL REVIEWS |
|
"This collection of ten essays illustrates the excitement of ongoing research in the rapidly expanding area of minorities, race, and ethnicity in East Asia as well as some of the usual difficulties of fieldwork in politically sensitive and geographically remote regions....[T]hese chapters generally provide new and stimulating material suggestive of the kind of work now being undertaken in this area of research....[T]he promising research presented here should further stimulate the scholarly examination of China's cultures and expand a discussion of the great diversity within the categories of "Han" and "Chinese” as well as among the many distinct ethnic groups now a part of the Chinese state." ~Linda Benson, Oakland University, in China Review International (http://www.jstor.org/stable/23732349) |
|
"This publication's relevance is twofold. On the one hand it touches on the complex issue of Chineseness with all its ideological as well as political and strategic repercussions. On the other hand it documents the state of China related anthropological research, which at present is a particularily fast growing field of Chinese studies." ~Barbara Hendrischke, University of Melbourne, in Journal of Contemporary Asia (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472339880000221) |
|
"This is a fascinating collection of ten essays on the subject of ethnic identity construction and negotiation covering a range of different contexts in China and Taiwan....Most of the essays are well written with ethnographic details and theoretical insights tightly interwoven." ~Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio, in Pacific Affairs (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2760991) |
