Cultural encounters on China's ethnic frontiers / edited by Stevan Harrell.

Other author Harrell, Stevan.
Format Book
Publication InfoSeattle : University of Washington Press, ©1995.
Descriptionviii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Ethnicity--China.
Acculturation--China.
China--Ethnic relations.
China--Social life and customs.

SeriesStudies on ethnic groups in China
Studies on ethnic groups in China. ^A360790
Contents Introduction : the Naxi and the nationalities question / Charles F. McKhann -- The history of the history of the Yi / Stevan Harrell -- Defining the Miao : Ming, Qing, and contemporary views / Norma Diamond -- Making histories : contending conceptions of the Yao past / Ralph A. Litzinger -- Père Vial and the Gni-pa̕ : orientalist scholarship and the Christian project / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Voices of Manchu identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger -- Millenarianism, Christian movements, and ethnic change among the Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung -- Chinggis Khan : from imperial ancestor to ethnic hero / Almaz Khan -- The impact of urban ethnic education on modern Mongolian ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud -- On the dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue ethnicity : an ethnohistorical analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-366) and index.
LCCN 94015697
ISBN0295973803 (acid-free paper)