Naran Bilik
Biographic Data
| ID | 161007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naran Bilik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naran |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilik |
| SIGNATURE | BILIK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trilingual Education and Mongolian Ethnicity
China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies
The movement of Han Chinese into minority regions has been a long-standing pattern in China. However, China's minorities have taken longer to start moving in significant numbers and have now become part of a social change phenomenon, motivated by economic, social, and political factors. This book looks at how current changes in China are affecting the minority population. The case studies focus on how population shifts and the movement of China's…
Names Have Memories: History, Semantic Identity and Conflict in Mongolian and Chinese Language Use
Nomenclatural tension and pragmatic incongruence underscore the Inner Mongols’ resistance to sinicisation and the process of their integration into the newly constructed nation- state of China. This paper focuses on the interplay between the original sense and the translated meaning of some ethnic, state, and place names that travel inter–lingually between Mongolian and Chinese in modern Inner Mongolian history. It challenges the Chinese nation- …
The Reconstruction of Mongolian Identity in the Pantheon of Polyphonic Images
Despite the wish for homogenisation on the part of nation builders of China – the Central Kingdom that has now turned to embrace a market economy with ‘Chinese characteristics’ – Mongolian ethnicity in Yunnan, like ethnicities in other places of this country, is strengthened due to increasing tourism and contacts facilitated by modern technologies of communication and transportation. Different cultural elements and different ethnic groups gather,…
The Nan-Kun Railway and Sociocultural Change among Minority Nationalities
The Nanning-Kunming Railway runs through the minority nationality areas of Southwest China. Construction started during the Eighth Five-Year Plan (1991-1995) and extended into the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000). Now it is complete and functioning reasonably well. The railway goes through the Lunan Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan, the Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Southwest Guizhou, the Longlin All Nationalities Autonomous County of Guangx…
The Ethnicity of Anthropology in China: Discursive Diversity and Linguistic Relativity
■ Chinese anthropologists have been attempting to locate anthropology in China, debating the legitimacy of its bentu hua, or `nativization'. However, a second careful look will take us to a more complicated landscape. While China, as one of the `mis-imagined' homogeneous world-level communities has to face the West, its minority groups, whether `imagined or not', have to confront both the Han world and the West. In connection to the hegemony of a…
Chinese Openness and Anthropology's Nativization
In this article, the nativization of Chinese anthropology is seen as part of the effort throughout the twentieth century to "modernize" China; moreover, it is seen as the manifestation of a complex, a discourse. Nativizing anthropology is not simply an academic exercise. It is a dialogue with the West, a "cry of grief and indignation" at the political and economic inequities perpetrated by foreign powers during the opening of China to the West. I…
Monologue and Dialogue About China's Anthropology: Issues and Problems
The article holds that the third "cultural craze" begun in the 1980s is now taking off with maturity and specialization. In this "cultural craze," anthropology in China is facing the critical situation of national modernization and social transformation. It will bid farewell to the days of monologue, step into the international anthropological arena, and join the dialogues among anthropologists
The Mongol‐Han relations in a new configuration of social evolution
Language education, intellectuals and symbolic representation: Being an urban Mongolian in a new configuration of social evolution
In China, the Han language is dominant, accompanied by the explicit and implicit values, beliefs, purposes and activities which characterize the enduring efforts of nation‐builders. In Inner Mongolia, nearly a quarter of the Mongolian population use Chinese only, and recently there is a downward trend for Mongolian education in urban areas, leading to the demise of the language and thereby Mongolian culture. This article traces the development of…
China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies
The movement of Han Chinese into minority regions has been a long-standing pattern in China. However, China's minorities have taken longer to start moving in significant numbers and have now become part of a social change phenomenon, motivated by economic, social, and political factors. This book looks at how current changes in China are affecting the minority population. The case studies focus on how population shifts and the movement of China's…
Language education, intellectuals and symbolic representation: Being an urban Mongolian in a new configuration of social evolution
In China, the Han language is dominant, accompanied by the explicit and implicit values, beliefs, purposes and activities which characterize the enduring efforts of nation‐builders. In Inner Mongolia, nearly a quarter of the Mongolian population use Chinese only, and recently there is a downward trend for Mongolian education in urban areas, leading to the demise of the language and thereby Mongolian culture. This article traces the development of…
Names Have Memories: History, Semantic Identity and Conflict in Mongolian and Chinese Language Use
Nomenclatural tension and pragmatic incongruence underscore the Inner Mongols’ resistance to sinicisation and the process of their integration into the newly constructed nation- state of China. This paper focuses on the interplay between the original sense and the translated meaning of some ethnic, state, and place names that travel inter–lingually between Mongolian and Chinese in modern Inner Mongolian history. It challenges the Chinese nation- …
The Ethnicity of Anthropology in China: Discursive Diversity and Linguistic Relativity
■ Chinese anthropologists have been attempting to locate anthropology in China, debating the legitimacy of its bentu hua, or `nativization'. However, a second careful look will take us to a more complicated landscape. While China, as one of the `mis-imagined' homogeneous world-level communities has to face the West, its minority groups, whether `imagined or not', have to confront both the Han world and the West. In connection to the hegemony of a…
Chinese Openness and Anthropology's Nativization
In this article, the nativization of Chinese anthropology is seen as part of the effort throughout the twentieth century to "modernize" China; moreover, it is seen as the manifestation of a complex, a discourse. Nativizing anthropology is not simply an academic exercise. It is a dialogue with the West, a "cry of grief and indignation" at the political and economic inequities perpetrated by foreign powers during the opening of China to the West. I…
The Mongol‐Han relations in a new configuration of social evolution
The Mongol‐Han relations in a new configuration of social evolution
Language education, intellectuals and symbolic representation: Being an urban Mongolian in a new configuration of social evolution
In China, the Han language is dominant, accompanied by the explicit and implicit values, beliefs, purposes and activities which characterize the enduring efforts of nation‐builders. In Inner Mongolia, nearly a quarter of the Mongolian population use Chinese only, and recently there is a downward trend for Mongolian education in urban areas, leading to the demise of the language and thereby Mongolian culture. This article traces the development of…
Monologue and Dialogue About China's Anthropology: Issues and Problems
The article holds that the third "cultural craze" begun in the 1980s is now taking off with maturity and specialization. In this "cultural craze," anthropology in China is facing the critical situation of national modernization and social transformation. It will bid farewell to the days of monologue, step into the international anthropological arena, and join the dialogues among anthropologists
Chinese Openness and Anthropology's Nativization
In this article, the nativization of Chinese anthropology is seen as part of the effort throughout the twentieth century to "modernize" China; moreover, it is seen as the manifestation of a complex, a discourse. Nativizing anthropology is not simply an academic exercise. It is a dialogue with the West, a "cry of grief and indignation" at the political and economic inequities perpetrated by foreign powers during the opening of China to the West. I…
The Nan-Kun Railway and Sociocultural Change among Minority Nationalities
The Nanning-Kunming Railway runs through the minority nationality areas of Southwest China. Construction started during the Eighth Five-Year Plan (1991-1995) and extended into the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000). Now it is complete and functioning reasonably well. The railway goes through the Lunan Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan, the Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Southwest Guizhou, the Longlin All Nationalities Autonomous County of Guangx…
The Ethnicity of Anthropology in China: Discursive Diversity and Linguistic Relativity
■ Chinese anthropologists have been attempting to locate anthropology in China, debating the legitimacy of its bentu hua, or `nativization'. However, a second careful look will take us to a more complicated landscape. While China, as one of the `mis-imagined' homogeneous world-level communities has to face the West, its minority groups, whether `imagined or not', have to confront both the Han world and the West. In connection to the hegemony of a…
The Reconstruction of Mongolian Identity in the Pantheon of Polyphonic Images
Despite the wish for homogenisation on the part of nation builders of China – the Central Kingdom that has now turned to embrace a market economy with ‘Chinese characteristics’ – Mongolian ethnicity in Yunnan, like ethnicities in other places of this country, is strengthened due to increasing tourism and contacts facilitated by modern technologies of communication and transportation. Different cultural elements and different ethnic groups gather,…
Names Have Memories: History, Semantic Identity and Conflict in Mongolian and Chinese Language Use
Nomenclatural tension and pragmatic incongruence underscore the Inner Mongols’ resistance to sinicisation and the process of their integration into the newly constructed nation- state of China. This paper focuses on the interplay between the original sense and the translated meaning of some ethnic, state, and place names that travel inter–lingually between Mongolian and Chinese in modern Inner Mongolian history. It challenges the Chinese nation- …
China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies
The movement of Han Chinese into minority regions has been a long-standing pattern in China. However, China's minorities have taken longer to start moving in significant numbers and have now become part of a social change phenomenon, motivated by economic, social, and political factors. This book looks at how current changes in China are affecting the minority population. The case studies focus on how population shifts and the movement of China's…
Trilingual Education and Mongolian Ethnicity
China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (10 works) · China (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (4 works)