Making majorities : constituting the nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States / edited by Dru C. Gladney.

Other author Gladney, Dru C.
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxv, 350 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEast-West Center series on contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific. ^A372718
Contents Introduction: making and marking majorities / Dru C. Gladney -- Culturalism, racialism, and internationalism in the discourse on Japanese identity / Kosaku Yoshino -- A conceptual model for the historical relationship between the self and the internal and external others : the agrarian Japanese, the Ainu, and the special-status people / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Who speaks for Korean shamans when shamans speak of the nation? / Laurel Kendall -- Constructing and deconstructing "Koreanness" / Cho Hae-joang -- On three definitions of Han Ren : images of the majority people in Taiwan / Hsieh Shih-chung -- Clashed civilizations? : Muslim and Chinese identities in the PRC / Dru C. Gladney -- Bureaucratic management of identity in a modern state : "Malayness" in postwar Malaysia / Shamsul A.B. -- Ideological work in constructing the Malay majority / Anthony Milner -- Aspiring to minority and other tactics against violence / John D. Kelly -- When 8,870 - 850 = 1 : discourses against democracy in Fiji, past and present / Martha Kaplan -- From Ottoman to Turk : self-image and social engineering in Turkey / Selim Deringil -- Minority/majority discourse : the case of the Kurds in Turkey / Kemal Kirişci -- Studying mainstreams and minorities in North America : some epistemological and ethical dilemmas / Richard Handler -- The illusion of paradise : privileging multiculturalism in Hawaiʻi / Jonathan Y. Okamura.
General noteBased on a conference at the East-West Center"--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-340) and index.
LCCN 97042928
ISBN0804730474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0804730482 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0804746567 (cloth : alk. paper)