Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers / edited by Morris Rossabi.
Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximatelyeight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-...
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| Superior document: | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, 2004. ©2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Notes: | Papers presented at conference "China's Management of Its National Minorities," held in Washington, D.C., Feb. 2001. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction - Morris Rossabi""; ""1/ White Hats, Oil Cakes, and Common Blood: The Hui in the Contemporary Chinese State - Jonathan N. Lipman""; ""2/ The Challenge of Sipsong Panna in the Southwest Development: Resources, and Power in a Multiethnic China - Mette Halskov Hansen""; ""3/ Inner Mongolia: The Dialectics of Colonization and Ethnicity Building - Uradyn E. Bulag""; ""4/ Heteronomy and Its Discontents: "Minzu Regional Autonomy" in Xinjiang - Gardner Bovingdon""
- ""5/ Making Xinjiang Safe for the Han? : Contradictions and Ironies of Chinese Governance in China's Northwest - David Bachman""""6/ Tibet and China in the Twentieth Century - Melvyn C. Goldstein""; ""7/ A Thorn in the Dragon's Side: Tibetan Buddhist Culture in China - Matthew T. Kapstein""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""