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.