Ethnic Identity in China

by Gladney, Dru C.

• ISBN13: 9780155019706
• ISBN10: 0155019708
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co

Summary

This case study introduces students to the problems of ethnic diversity in China, a modern nation-state that is normally thought of and taught as culturally monolithic. By introducing students to the wide diversity of identity within one nationality, they are exposed to the ethnic complexities as well as to the larger issue of ethnic pluralism in modern nation-states. Students' perceptions regarding other societies, as well as our own, are challenged and broadened.

Table of Contents

Foreword
About the Series
About the Author
About This Case Study
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Research: A Personal Search for the Hui	p. 1
"Being There" in the Chinese Nation-State	p. 5
Fieldwork and Anthropological Careers in the Post-Colonial World	p. 8
The Uniting of China	p. 11
Creating Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of the Hui Nationality	p. 25
Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community	p. 57
Chang Ying: Gender, Marriage, and Identity in a Hui Autonomous Village	p. 81
Oxen Street: The Urban Hui Experience in Beijing	p. 105
Chendai: Ethnic Revitalization in Quanzhou, Fujian	p. 135
Conclusion: Ethnic National Identity in the Contemporary Chinese State	p. 159
References	p. 177
Index	p. 189
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