Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China

Mullaney challenges common understandings of the classification process as rushed and arbitrary, instead locating the minzu shibie within such diverse intellectual traditions as British imperial ethnology, Republican-era social science, and Maoist field research. Granting this vast number of groups...

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Published in:Pacific Affairs 2014, Vol.87 (1), p.136-138
Main Author: Newland, Sara A
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
China
Classification
Cultural identity
Ethnicity
Field study
Linguistics
Minority & ethnic groups
Modern society
Nation
Political representation
Researchers
Taxonomy
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Summary:Mullaney challenges common understandings of the classification process as rushed and arbitrary, instead locating the minzu shibie within such diverse intellectual traditions as British imperial ethnology, Republican-era social science, and Maoist field research. Granting this vast number of groups the political representation that the constitution promised to ethnic minorities would have been an impossible task for a fledgling government.
ISSN:0030-851X
0030-851X
1715-3379