Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China /

Mullaney, Thomas S.

Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China / Thomas S. Mullaney ; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. - xxiv, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Asia : local studies/global themes ; 18 . - Asia--local studies/global themes ; 18. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-215) and index.

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 -- Appendix A: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1951, according to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission -- Appendix B: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1953, according to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission -- Appendix C: Minzu entries, 1953/1954 census, by population -- Appendix D: Classification squads, phases one and two -- Appendix E: Population sizes of groups researched during phase one and phase two.

9780520262782 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520262786 (cloth : alk. paper)

2010019209


Ethnology--History--China--20th century.
Ethnicity--China.
Minorities--Government policy--China.
Nationale Minderheit
Klassifikation
Ethnizität


China--Population.
China

DS730 / .M85 2011

305.800951