Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward |
| ISBN-13 | 9781784717360 |
| Open Library | OL21598224W |
| Total publications | 22 |
| Coverage period | 2016 - 2016 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 19 |
| Impact factor | 0.682 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
In chapter 2, Ma Jianxiong provides an overall view and general information about ethnic minorities in southwestern China. This region includes Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ma starts with a discussion of the geographic distribution of ethnic populations in this region, which he describes as one of the most culturally diverse areas in China and the world. He then examines the system of native chieftains in pre-modern times before giving a detailed description of ethnic identification and classification and the process of the establishment of minority autonomous governments in southwestern China
Ethnic minorities in Southwest China
In chapter 2, Ma Jianxiong provides an overall view and general information about ethnic minorities in southwestern China. This region includes Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ma starts with a discussion of the geographic distribution of ethnic populations in this region, which he describes as one of the most culturally diverse areas in China and the world. He then examines the system of …
Ethnic marginalization in China: The case of the Lahu
In chapter 16, Jianxiong Ma analyzes the issue of ethnic marginalization and why minority responses to ethnic marginalization happened in the last several decades in the southwest frontier of China, using the Lahu group as a case study. The government has not raised a sufficient number of Lahu elites. It has instead focused on poverty reduction projects. As a result, the Lahu’s position in the local government hierarchy has been ‘hijacked’ by loc…
Hui Muslims in Northwest China
In chapter 3, Michael Dillon examines Chinese Muslims with emphasis on Hui in northwestern China in general and in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in particular. He begins with a short discussion of the languages and cultures of the Chinese Muslims. He then outlines the origins and development of the Hui and Chinese Islam since the Tang Dynasty (618–906). Next, Dillon mentions how Chinese Muslims have done in the PRC before he discusses the Hui in …
Ethnic minority languages and cultures
In chapter 10, Colin Mackerras studies minority languages and cultures. Mackerras outlines government policy towards ethnic minority languages and, with some focus on the twenty-first century, discusses the situation for minority languages. He suggests that minority languages are not doing well among the gathering pace of the spread of Mandarin and Chinese modernization. He also covers topics such as the use of minority languages in the education…
Tibet in China? China in Tibet
In chapter 5, Benno Ryan Weiner offers an historical overview of Tibet’s position within China and China’s position within Tibet, stressing the ways in which both the CCP and advocates for Tibetan independence employ ‘history’ as a tool to make claims about Tibet’s current international position. Weiner then examines the Tibetan Plateau’s incorporation into the PRC during the Maoist period (1949–1976), focusing on the CCP’s parallel but incomplet…
Ethnic minorities and China’s foreign policy
In chapter 18, Michael Clarke argues that the PRC’s ethnic minorities have been a major factor in the PRC’s foreign relations. He first defines the nature and scale of the challenge posed by an ethnic minority as a function of the interplay of five major factors: the historical relationship between the ethnic group and the Chinese state; the geographic concentration of an ethnic minority; and the degree of acculturation to the dominant Han societ…
Ethnic autonomous regions and the unitary multi-ethnic nation-state
In chapter 7, Hongyi Lai claims that the CCP has practiced regional ethnic autonomy (REA) in order to appease ethnic aspiration while securing national unity under a strong central government since 1949. REA can be understood as limited administrative autonomy. Regional ethnic autonomy was inspired by ethnic policy of the Soviet Union, imperial China and CCP practices in the 1940s. REA was installed in the 1950s. The institutions and policy assoc…
Ethnic tourism in China
In chapter 13, Tim Oakes presents several key issues concerning the study of ethnic tourism in China today. Even though Chinese-language tourism scholarship has exploded since the mid-2000s, there remains a great deal of room for critical research on Chinese ethnic tourism. Noting the rise of independent tourism and leisure consumption in China, Oakes finds that ethnic tourism has expanded beyond the bounded geography of the ‘minority village’ an…
The state of research on urban Chinese ethnicity: Urban Mongols
In chapter 9, William Jankowiak and B Shurentana provide an overview of themes and trends in the study of ethnicity in urban China. First, because minority research has been primarily conducted among rural ethnic groups, there are few studies of urban ethnic populations. To date, most research has focused on the relationship between cultural assumptions and how state policies have shaped who is and who is not a minority. With a few notable except…
Integration policy and South Asian minorities in Hong Kong
In chapter 17, Kam-yee Law and Kim-ming Lee provide an updated evaluation of the overall performance of integration policies by focusing on South Asian minorities (i.e., Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese), who had been in Hong Kong for over 170 years but continued to live under disadvantaged conditions. The implementation of integration policies, focusing on the experience and constraint of the non-government organizations as implementing agents …
Introduction: Who are ethnic minorities and how well do they do in China?
Ethnic inequality in education
In chapter 14, Yangbin Chen studies inequality in education between China’s ethnic minorities and the mainstream Han population. He discusses ethnic inequality in Chinese education from four main perspectives. The first is the macro-structural forces that shape the inequality, such as geography, history, policies, and so on. The second is the system of the family-school-ethnic community, where the ethnic inequality in education takes place in an …
Ethnic disparities in economic well-being in China
In chapter 15, Björn Gustafsson surveys research that addresses the existence and magnitude of disparities in economic wellbeing in China between ethnic minorities and the majority Han group, and attempts to throw light on the reasons for the gaps. According to Gustafsson, in rural China, income differs greatly between locations, and most of China's rural minorities live in places with low average income. In addition, in some but not all rural lo…
Abbreviations
Tables
Gender norms among ethnic minorities: Beyond ‘(Han) Chinese patriarchy’
In chapter 11, Shanshan Du challenges the concept of ‘Chinese patriarchy’ by stressing the diversity and dynamics of gender norms among ethnic minorities in China. She first offers a sketch of gendered cultural conventions of ethnic minorities in the context of the invasive influence of patriarchy during their interactions with Han Chinese and the state. She shows that minority peoples have always been actively appropriating, negotiating, contest…
Xinjiang and the Uyghurs
In chapter 4, Michael Dillon first outlines Xinjiang’s geographical position before discussing various aspects of Uyghur culture including language, mosques, and mazars. He then examines the relationship between the Chinese government and Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which is marked by demonstrations, violence, and resistance in the post-1990 era. The CCP has developed various polices and set up the religious affairs bureau, and the training of ‘patrioti…
Representations of Chinese minorities
In chapter 12, Louisa Schein (with Luo Yu) makes the case that a rigorous examination of how minorities have been portrayed in Chinese public culture must be driven by attention to the effects of such portrayals. Schein studies the discourses of superiority – or what Schein calls “supremacism” – within the Chinese social field. Commonly, analysts have amalgamated the symbolic counterpart of minorities into the monolith Han/ state/ urban/ intellec…
Nation-state building and multiculturalism in China
In chapter 6, Minglang Zhou points out that the accommodation of multiculturalism in China has been a serious challenge since 1949. He examines, in terms of the concept of citizenship, how China entertained multiculturalism in the Soviet model of multinational state building between 1949 and the 1990s and how China has accommodated multiculturalism in its new Chinese model of one nation with diversity since the late 1990s. According to Zhou, the …
Index
Preferential policies for ethnic minorities in China
In chapter 8, James Leibold argues that China has arguably the world's most extensive regime of minority affirmative action policies, far more extensive than the more widely discussed and debated policies that exist in the United States of America and other liberal democracies. Generally known as "preferential policies" (youhui zhengce 优惠政策) in Chinese, these policies provide China's nearly 120 million ethnic minorities with tangible material and…
Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China
In chapter 2, Ma Jianxiong provides an overall view and general information about ethnic minorities in southwestern China. This region includes Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ma starts with a discussion of the geographic distribution of ethnic populations in this region, which he describes as one of the most culturally diverse areas in China and the world. He then examines the system of …
Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China
In chapter 2, Ma Jianxiong provides an overall view and general information about ethnic minorities in southwestern China. This region includes Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ma starts with a discussion of the geographic distribution of ethnic populations in this region, which he describes as one of the most culturally diverse areas in China and the world. He then examines the system of …
Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China
In chapter 2, Ma Jianxiong provides an overall view and general information about ethnic minorities in southwestern China. This region includes Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ma starts with a discussion of the geographic distribution of ethnic populations in this region, which he describes as one of the most culturally diverse areas in China and the world. He then examines the system of …
Ethnic minorities in Southwest China
In chapter 2, Ma Jianxiong provides an overall view and general information about ethnic minorities in southwestern China. This region includes Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ma starts with a discussion of the geographic distribution of ethnic populations in this region, which he describes as one of the most culturally diverse areas in China and the world. He then examines the system of …
Ethnic marginalization in China: The case of the Lahu
In chapter 16, Jianxiong Ma analyzes the issue of ethnic marginalization and why minority responses to ethnic marginalization happened in the last several decades in the southwest frontier of China, using the Lahu group as a case study. The government has not raised a sufficient number of Lahu elites. It has instead focused on poverty reduction projects. As a result, the Lahu’s position in the local government hierarchy has been ‘hijacked’ by loc…
Hui Muslims in Northwest China
In chapter 3, Michael Dillon examines Chinese Muslims with emphasis on Hui in northwestern China in general and in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in particular. He begins with a short discussion of the languages and cultures of the Chinese Muslims. He then outlines the origins and development of the Hui and Chinese Islam since the Tang Dynasty (618–906). Next, Dillon mentions how Chinese Muslims have done in the PRC before he discusses the Hui in …
Ethnic minority languages and cultures
In chapter 10, Colin Mackerras studies minority languages and cultures. Mackerras outlines government policy towards ethnic minority languages and, with some focus on the twenty-first century, discusses the situation for minority languages. He suggests that minority languages are not doing well among the gathering pace of the spread of Mandarin and Chinese modernization. He also covers topics such as the use of minority languages in the education…
Tibet in China? China in Tibet
In chapter 5, Benno Ryan Weiner offers an historical overview of Tibet’s position within China and China’s position within Tibet, stressing the ways in which both the CCP and advocates for Tibetan independence employ ‘history’ as a tool to make claims about Tibet’s current international position. Weiner then examines the Tibetan Plateau’s incorporation into the PRC during the Maoist period (1949–1976), focusing on the CCP’s parallel but incomplet…
Ethnic minorities and China’s foreign policy
In chapter 18, Michael Clarke argues that the PRC’s ethnic minorities have been a major factor in the PRC’s foreign relations. He first defines the nature and scale of the challenge posed by an ethnic minority as a function of the interplay of five major factors: the historical relationship between the ethnic group and the Chinese state; the geographic concentration of an ethnic minority; and the degree of acculturation to the dominant Han societ…
Ethnic autonomous regions and the unitary multi-ethnic nation-state
In chapter 7, Hongyi Lai claims that the CCP has practiced regional ethnic autonomy (REA) in order to appease ethnic aspiration while securing national unity under a strong central government since 1949. REA can be understood as limited administrative autonomy. Regional ethnic autonomy was inspired by ethnic policy of the Soviet Union, imperial China and CCP practices in the 1940s. REA was installed in the 1950s. The institutions and policy assoc…
Ethnic tourism in China
In chapter 13, Tim Oakes presents several key issues concerning the study of ethnic tourism in China today. Even though Chinese-language tourism scholarship has exploded since the mid-2000s, there remains a great deal of room for critical research on Chinese ethnic tourism. Noting the rise of independent tourism and leisure consumption in China, Oakes finds that ethnic tourism has expanded beyond the bounded geography of the ‘minority village’ an…
The state of research on urban Chinese ethnicity: Urban Mongols
In chapter 9, William Jankowiak and B Shurentana provide an overview of themes and trends in the study of ethnicity in urban China. First, because minority research has been primarily conducted among rural ethnic groups, there are few studies of urban ethnic populations. To date, most research has focused on the relationship between cultural assumptions and how state policies have shaped who is and who is not a minority. With a few notable except…
Integration policy and South Asian minorities in Hong Kong
In chapter 17, Kam-yee Law and Kim-ming Lee provide an updated evaluation of the overall performance of integration policies by focusing on South Asian minorities (i.e., Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese), who had been in Hong Kong for over 170 years but continued to live under disadvantaged conditions. The implementation of integration policies, focusing on the experience and constraint of the non-government organizations as implementing agents …
Introduction: Who are ethnic minorities and how well do they do in China?
Ethnic inequality in education
In chapter 14, Yangbin Chen studies inequality in education between China’s ethnic minorities and the mainstream Han population. He discusses ethnic inequality in Chinese education from four main perspectives. The first is the macro-structural forces that shape the inequality, such as geography, history, policies, and so on. The second is the system of the family-school-ethnic community, where the ethnic inequality in education takes place in an …
Ethnic disparities in economic well-being in China
In chapter 15, Björn Gustafsson surveys research that addresses the existence and magnitude of disparities in economic wellbeing in China between ethnic minorities and the majority Han group, and attempts to throw light on the reasons for the gaps. According to Gustafsson, in rural China, income differs greatly between locations, and most of China's rural minorities live in places with low average income. In addition, in some but not all rural lo…
Abbreviations
Tables
Gender norms among ethnic minorities: Beyond ‘(Han) Chinese patriarchy’
In chapter 11, Shanshan Du challenges the concept of ‘Chinese patriarchy’ by stressing the diversity and dynamics of gender norms among ethnic minorities in China. She first offers a sketch of gendered cultural conventions of ethnic minorities in the context of the invasive influence of patriarchy during their interactions with Han Chinese and the state. She shows that minority peoples have always been actively appropriating, negotiating, contest…
Xinjiang and the Uyghurs
In chapter 4, Michael Dillon first outlines Xinjiang’s geographical position before discussing various aspects of Uyghur culture including language, mosques, and mazars. He then examines the relationship between the Chinese government and Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which is marked by demonstrations, violence, and resistance in the post-1990 era. The CCP has developed various polices and set up the religious affairs bureau, and the training of ‘patrioti…
Representations of Chinese minorities
In chapter 12, Louisa Schein (with Luo Yu) makes the case that a rigorous examination of how minorities have been portrayed in Chinese public culture must be driven by attention to the effects of such portrayals. Schein studies the discourses of superiority – or what Schein calls “supremacism” – within the Chinese social field. Commonly, analysts have amalgamated the symbolic counterpart of minorities into the monolith Han/ state/ urban/ intellec…
Nation-state building and multiculturalism in China
In chapter 6, Minglang Zhou points out that the accommodation of multiculturalism in China has been a serious challenge since 1949. He examines, in terms of the concept of citizenship, how China entertained multiculturalism in the Soviet model of multinational state building between 1949 and the 1990s and how China has accommodated multiculturalism in its new Chinese model of one nation with diversity since the late 1990s. According to Zhou, the …
Index
Preferential policies for ethnic minorities in China
In chapter 8, James Leibold argues that China has arguably the world's most extensive regime of minority affirmative action policies, far more extensive than the more widely discussed and debated policies that exist in the United States of America and other liberal democracies. Generally known as "preferential policies" (youhui zhengce 优惠政策) in Chinese, these policies provide China's nearly 120 million ethnic minorities with tangible material and…