Miao : AE05.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Areas Files, 2009-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=AE05
Subjects

Included WorkChen, Guojun, 1916- Kweichow An-shun Miao-I ti tsung-chiao hsin Yang. English.
Included WorkDiamond, Norma. Culture summary, Miao.
Included WorkDiamond, Norma. Ethnicity and the state.
Included WorkGraham, David Crockett Customs of the Ch'uan Miao.
Included WorkGraham, David Crockett Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao.
Included WorkLing, Shun-shêng. Hsiang-hsi Miao-tsu Tiao-ch's Pao-kao. English.
Included WorkMickey, Margaret Portia, 1889-1988. Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow.
Included WorkRui, Yifu Magpie Miao of southern Szechuan.
Included WorkSchein, Louisa, 1957- Minority rules.
Included WorkWu Chê-lin. Kweichow Miao-I shê-hui yen-chiu. English.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Asia. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Religious beliefs of the Miao and I tribes in An-shun Kweichow / Kuo-chun Ch'en ; translation by Lien-en Tsao -- Culture summary, Miao ; Ethnicity and the state, the Hua Miao of southwest China / Norma Diamond -- Customs of the Ch'uan Miao ; Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao / David Crockett Graham -- Ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao / translated from the Miao into Chinese by Hsiung Ts'ao-sung ; translated from the Chinese by David Crockett Graham, with the assistance of Hsiung Ts'ao-sung -- Report on an investigation of the Miao of western Hunan / Shun-sheng Ling and Yih-fu Ruey ; translation by Lien-en Tsao -- Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow / Margaret Portia Mickey -- Magpie Miao of southern Szechuan / Ruey Yih-fu -- Minority rules, the Miao and the feminine in China's cultural politics / Louisa Schein -- Studies of Miao-I societies in Kweichow / Wu Chê-lin, Ch'en Kuo-chün and others ; translation by Lien-en Tsao.
Abstract This collection of ten documents, three translated from the Chinese, provide historical, economic and cultural information about the Miao, circa 1920-2000. Most are based on fieldwork with different Miao communities in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s at a time when many Miao farmers actively participated first in the liberation struggle against Japanese occupation and later on during the "Long March" with the victorious Red Army. The earliest and most basic sources in the collection are by Graham which, together, provide a variety of cultural information including language, mythology, subsistence, dwellings, family life, kinship, village government, arts, religion and ceremonials. His focus on the Miao of southern Szechwan is complimented by Rui who provides a brief description of a subgroup called Magpai Miao. Four documents focus on different Miao groups living in Kweichow, Hunan, and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Based on ethnographic data collected in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Chinese government gradually opened rural communities to Western researchers and travelers, the two remaining works discuss the ways in which the cultures and identities of the Miao (and other minority ethnic groups) have been constructed and deployed since the 1949 and especially in the context of China's post-Mao economic reforms. The Miao are one of 56 non-Han Chinese people officially recognized by the government as minority nationalities. They are distinguished by language, dress, historical traditions, and cultural practice from neighboring ethnic groups and the dominant Han Chinese.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Mar. 27, 2010).
General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2009 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file.
Contains title Ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao.

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