Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers / edited by Stevan Harrell.
A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle, Wash. : : University of Washington Press,, [1995] ©[1995] |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 1995 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 379 p. :; ill., maps. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The historiography of ethnic identity
- The Naxi and the nationalities question / Charles F. McKhann
- The history of the history of the Yi / Stevan Harrell
- Defining the Miao : Ming, Qing, and contemporary views / Norma Diamond
- Making histories : contending conceptions of the Yao past / Ralph A. Litzinger
- Pere Vial and the Gni-pa̕ : orientalist scholarship and the Christian project / Margaret Byrne Swain
- Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger
- Part II. The history of ethnic identity
- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung
- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan
- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud
- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh
- Glossary
- References
- Contributors
- Index.