Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities Politics, Disciplines, and Public History /

• Main Author: Wu, Guo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Directions in East Asian History,
• Subjects: Ethnology.; World politics.; China-History.; History, Modern.; Sociology.; Intellectual life-History.; Political History.; History of China.; Modern History.; Knowledge - Discourse.; Intellectual Studies.

Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is rooted in modern China's q...

Table of Contents:

• The Chinese Nation and Nationalities as a Process of Collaborative Knowledge Production
• "Big Family of Fifty-Six Nationalities:" The Chinese Communist Conceptualization of Minzu (1921-1951)
• Disciplines and Politics: From Malinowski to "People's Anthropology"
• Inventing Primitive Society in Chinese Historiography and Ethnology
• Investigating Southern Minority Nationalities
• Collaboration and Resistance of Minority Elite: Huang Xianfan's Struggle
• Telling Southern Minority Nationalities to the Public
• Epilogue: "Ghost Master" at Langde: Encountering Miao Shamanism.