Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State

by Shih,Chih-yu

• ISBN13: 9780415283724
• ISBN10: 0415283728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions. Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images of ethnic minority, this book provides an image of the framing of ethnicity by modern state building processes. It will be of vital interest to scholars of political science, anthropology and sociology, and is essential reading to those engaged in studying Chinese society.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction: Inside ``China moments'': ethnicity as legality and policy	1	(16)
PART I The ethnic economy of citizenship: comparison with aboriginal Taiwan	17	(44)
Becoming modern in Chinese and Taiwanese minority areas?	19	(24)
Interpreting elections in Taiwanese and Chinese minority areas	43	(18)
PART II Ethnic sensitivity: contingent identities	61	(38)
Reflexive Orientalism in Tujia-Miao Jishou, Western Hunan	63	(15)
Clan Confucianism in Tujia-Miao Yongshuen, Western Hunan	78	(21)
PART III Ethnic traits: after assimilation	99	(30)
Chinese patriotism in Manchurian Beining, Liaoning	101	(13)
Drawing out She characteristics in Lishui, Zhejiang	114	(15)
PART IV Ethnic religion: the adaptation of Islam	129	(34)
Uygurs who eat pork in Changde, Hunan	131	(14)
Muslims between mosque and state in Litong, Yingchuan	145	(18)
PART V Ethnic language: educational practices	163	(34)
Assimilation through ethnic language in Yunnan and Shenyang	165	(16)
The impact of schooling on Dai consciousness in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan	181	(16)
PART VI Ethnic schooling: sluggish enrollment	197	(36)
Questioning the meaning of ethnic education in Dong villages	199	(16)
The issue of school enrollment in Meigu's Yi community	215	(18)
Conclusion	233	(12)
Outside ``China moments'': ethnicity as strategic practices	235	(10)
Appendix	245	(1)
Notes	246	(11)
Bibliography	257	(7)
Index	264