Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China

Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China
Author: Xiaowei Zang
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784717363

This much-needed volume explains who ethnic minorities are and how well do they do in China. In addition to offering general information about ethnic minority groups in China, it discusses some important issues around ethnicity, including ethnic inequality, minority rights, and multiculturalism. Drawing on insights and perspectives from scholars in different continents the contributions provide critical reflections on where the field has been and where it is going, offering readers possible directions for future research on minority ethnicity in China. The Handbook reviews research and addresses key conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues in the study of ethnicity in China.

Ethnic Minorities of China

Ethnic Minorities of China
Author: 徐英
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9787508511009

" China is a multi-national country that has 56 minority nationalities and are dispersed over 60% of the land, mostly on plateaus, grasslands or in forests. Among these minorities, 53 have their own languages, 21 have written ones, and almost all have their own religious beliefs and festivals. The 21 ethnic minorities (Tibetan, Qiang, Tu, Daur, Ewenki, Hezhen, Dai, Dong, Miao, Uygur, Kazak, Hui) included in this book represent different areas and different cultures of the minority groups living in China. Their beautiful costumes with unique accessories, diverse food customs, fascinating traditions and celebrations. In this book, you travel to the 'homes' of these families of China through colorful photos and detailed introductions.

Ethnicity in China: A Critical Introduction

Ethnicity in China: A Critical Introduction
Author: Xiaowei Zang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745690459

On the global stage, China is often seen to be a homogenous nation when, in fact, it is a diverse multi-ethnic society, with 55 minority nationality groups recognized by the government. Scattered across the vast landmass, ethnic minorities in China occupy a precarious place in the state, where the Confucian concept of cultural community plays down ethnicity and encourages integration of minority nationalities into the majority Han-Chinese society. This insightful book reveals the ethnic diversity underlying the People’s Republic of China and examines how ethnicity intersects with social and political issues through key themes such as ethnic inequality, the preservation and contribution of the rich traditions and customs of minority cultures, and the autonomy of regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang. The author investigates the important role of the state and Beijing’s assimilation stance to show how its nationality policy, driven by Confucian assimilation ideology, has dictated China’s own minority rights regime and influenced its foreign policy towards international minority rights. This book by a distinguished scholar of ethnicity in China will be essential reading for students and scholars of race and ethnic relations, nationalism and Chinese culture and society.

China Ethnic Statistical Yearbook 2020

China Ethnic Statistical Yearbook 2020
Author: Rongxing Guo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030490246

This fully updated edition of the China Ethnic Statistic Yearbook, comprised of entirely original research, presents data on the socioeconomic situation of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Although the majority of China’s population is of the Han nationality (which accounts for more than 90% of China’s population), the non-Han ethnic groups have a population of more than 100 million. China has officially identified, except for other unknown ethnic groups and foreigners with Chinese citizenship, 55 ethnic minorities. In addition, ethnic minorities vary greatly in size. With a population of more than 15 million, the Zhuang are the largest ethnic minority, and the Lhoba, with a population of only about three thousand, the smallest. China’s ethnic diversity has resulted in a special socioeconomic landscape for China itself. How different have China’s ethnic groups been in every sphere of daily life and economic development during China’s fast transition period? In order to answer these questions, we have created a detailed and comparable set of data for each of China’s ethnic groups. This book presents, in an easy-to-use format, a broad collection of social and economic indicators on China’s 56 ethnic groups. This useful resource profiles the general social and economic situations for each of these ethnic groups. These indicators are compiled and estimated based on the regional and local data gathered from a variety of sources up to 2016 with up to date analysis. This Yearbook also includes a new chapter on China’s spatial (dis)integration as a multiethnic paradox.

Minority Education in China

Minority Education in China
Author: James Leibold
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9888208136

China has been ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. This volume recasts the pedagogical and policy challenges of minority education in China in the light of the state's efforts to balance unity and diversity. It brings together leading experts including both critical voices writing from outside China and those working inside China's educational system. The essays explore different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the ro.

Lesser Dragons

Lesser Dragons
Author: Michael Dillon
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780239521

Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating, complex, and vital world of China’s national minorities. Drawing on firsthand fieldwork in several minority areas, Michael Dillon introduces us to the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghur of Xinjiang, and the Manchus, and traces the evolution of their relationship with the Han Chinese majority. With chapters devoted to each of the most important minority groups and an additional chapter exploring the parallel but very different world of inter-ethnic relations in Taiwan, Lesser Dragons will interest anyone eager to understand the reality behind regional conflicts increasingly covered by global media. From the tense security situation in Xinjiang to China’s attitude toward Tibet and the Dalai Lama, to the resistance efforts of Mongolian herders losing traditional grasslands, Dillon’s book both examines clichés—such as those found in the Chinese press, which often portrays ethnic minorities as colorful but marginal people—and defies expectations. He shows us how these minority peoples’ religions, cultures, and above all languages mark these groups as distinct from the Chinese majority—distinct, yet endangered by the systemic forces of integration.

Coming to Terms with the Nation

Coming to Terms with the Nation
Author: Thomas Mullaney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520262786

Studies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers
Author: Stevan Harrell
Publisher: Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780295998923

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.

Ethnicity and Inequality in China

Ethnicity and Inequality in China
Author: Björn A. Gustafsson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000297551

This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the socio-economic profile of ethnic minorities: the China Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES). Managing ethnic diversity in China has become an increasingly important subject, especially against the backdrop of the nation’s rampant economic growth and changing institutional behaviour. The book has an analytical interest in looking at the benefactors of China’s growth from an ethnic group dimension, and notably, how the economic life of the 55 ethnic minority groups compares to the Han majority. It’s one of the first publications to capture the heterogeneity of ethnic minority groups’ socio-economic experience, through intersectional analysis and multi-disciplinary approaches. Contributing factors in explaining ethnic minorities’ experiences in the urban labour market are also considered: from how linguistic capital and migration patterns vary for ethnic minorities, to the effects of pro-rural policies. Underpinning these are questions about the extent to which happiness and discrimination impact the economic life of ethnic minorities. Ethnicity and Inequality in China will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars of economics, sociology and contemporary Chinese Studies more broadly.

Minority Rules

Minority Rules
Author: Louisa Schein
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822324447

Gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.