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  title info:
    title: Communist Multiculturalism
    sub title: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
  name:
    name part: McCarthy, Susan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Harrell, Stevan
    role:
      role term: contributor.
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      role term: ctb
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      role term: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
  name:
    name part: University of Washington Libraries
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      role term: funder.
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  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2011
    copyright date: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (248 p.).
  abstract: Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Culture, the Nation, and Chinese Minority Identity -- 2. The Dai, Bai, and Hui in Historical Perspective -- 3. Dharma and Development Among the Xishuangbanna Dai -- 4. The Bai and the Tradition of Modernity -- 5. Authenticity, Identity, and Tradition Among the Hui -- 6. Conclusion -- Chinese Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Susan McCarthy.
  note: funded by University of Washington Libraries
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Asian Studies / China
  subject:
    topic: Politics
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  classification: DS793.Y8 M4 2009eb
  classification: 305.80095135
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
  identifier: 9780295800417
  identifier: 0295800410
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
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    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 250123
    record change date: 20250425172145.1
    record identifier: in00005643706
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng