Ethnic identity change in the people's republic of China
An explanation using data from the 1982 and 1990 census enumerations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8087983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Hoddie (0000-0002-1395-7536, University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 119-141 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-7113 • E-ISSN: 1557-2986 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13537119808428531 |
| OpenAlex | W2018297290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article seeks to account for the rapid rise in the number of people who identify as minorities in the People's Republic of China. A comparison of the 1982 and 1990 census enumerations reveals that 24 million more individuals identified themselves as members of a minority group in 1990. Estimates indicate that fertility trends would account for an increase of only ten million during this eight year period. Two interacting factors, it is argued, account for the rapid shift in ethnic identity that occurred between 1982 and 1990 in the PRC: government policy and minority group characteristics. Government policy provided the incentive for change in ethnic identification by increasing the benefits available to minority citizens. Only those individuals associated with minority groups that had previously identified and were largely assimilated with the dominant group (in terms of residence, education, and level of economic development) could renew their claims for minority status. This argument is substantiated by a statistical test using county‐level data from the 1982 and 1990 censuses, a test that supports two hypotheses: first, changes in ethnic identity covary with the presence or absence of political incentives; secondly, ethnic identity changes covary with the degree of ethnic assimilation
Census · China · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Incentive · Political science · Politics · Population · Residence · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Demography · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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The contemporary ethnic minority in China
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Family and Reproduction in Southeastern China
Policing and racialization of rural migrant workers in Chinese cities
China's Korean Minority
The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Demographic and Socioeconomic Composition of China’s Ethnic Minorities
Ethnic Identity
China's Forty Millions
Minority Nationalities in China's Yunnan Province
The Temple of Ethnicity
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China's Minority Cultures
An Analysis of Recent Data on the Population of China
Social Mobilization and the Russification of Soviet Nationalities
Chinese Minority Policy and the Meaning of Minority Culture
Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation of the Minority Nationalities from the Han Majority in the People's Republic of China
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2018 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |