Chinese Minorities At Home And Abroad

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351846035

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Chinese Minorities at home and abroad by Michael Dillon Pdf

The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these categories effectively. This book offers a new, and sometimes unusual, perspective on ethnic relations in China, and on the interactions between China and other cultures. Two major themes run through the book: the classification of ethnic minorities in China by the state, and the implications of this practice; and the way in which China and the Chinese are seen by outsiders as well as insiders. The contributors, whose research is all based on fieldwork with the relevant communities, are from a wide range of backgrounds and are currently based in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and Germany. The subjects of their research are the politics of minority classification in the People’s Republic of China; questions of identity in Xinjiang; Kazakhstani perceptions of China and the Chinese; Chinese Muslims in Malaysia; and the growing Chinese diaspora in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Elena Barabantseva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136927362

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Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism by Elena Barabantseva Pdf

Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project, whose membership criteria have evolved historically. By looking specifically at the ascribed roles of China’s ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese in successive state-led modernisation efforts, This book offers new perspectives on the changing boundaries of the Chinese nation. It places domestic nation-building and transnational identity politics in a single analytical framework, and examines how they interact to frame the national project of the Chinese state. By exploring the processes taking place at the ethnic and territorial margins of the Chinese nation-state, the author provides a new perspective on China’s national modernisation project, clarifying the processes occurring across national boundaries and illustrating how China has negotiated the basis for belonging to its national project under the challenge to modernise amid both domestic and global transformations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Chinese politics, nationalism, transnationalism and regionalism.

Author : Xiaowei Zang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784717360

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Handbook on Ethnic Minorities in China by Xiaowei Zang Pdf

This much-needed volume explains who ethnic minorities are and how well do they do in China. In addition to offering general information about ethnic minority groups in China, it discusses some important issues around ethnicity, including ethnic inequality, minority rights, and multiculturalism. Drawing on insights and perspectives from scholars in different continents the contributions provide critical reflections on where the field has been and where it is going, offering readers possible directions for future research on minority ethnicity in China. The Handbook reviews research and addresses key conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues in the study of ethnicity in China.

Author : Jinghao Zhou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031094132

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Great Power Competition as the New Normal of China–US Relations by Jinghao Zhou Pdf

Will China–U.S. relations come back to the normal track? Does the confrontational approach work for China–US relations? This book argues that it is an unrealistic hope to bring China–US relations back to the so-called normal track because the great power competition will be a new normal of China–US relations and the USA will gain more from strategic competition than cooperation in the long run. This book shows that the strategy of “great power cooperation through competition” is more positive and constructive than the approaches of “peaceful coexist” and “maximum pressure.” This book does not intend to provide policy recommendations for governments to consider, but mainly to explain why the great power competition is inevitable and why it is necessary to continuously work with China in some areas through strategic competition. This book alarms the importance of understanding the nature of the Chinese Communist Party during the great power competition and aims to motivate both sides to revisit their foreign policy practice and come up with a better foreign policy strategy of handling China–US relations.

Author : GREGOR BENTON,Hong Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134323579

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Diasporic Chinese Ventures by GREGOR BENTON,Hong Liu Pdf

This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's transformation. The book collects interviews, speeches and essays that illustrate the development and direction of Wang's scholarship on ethnic and diasporic Chinese.

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000370966

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China in the Age of Xi Jinping by Michael Dillon Pdf

This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as the People's Republic of China. It will also be useful for more advanced students who need to understand developments in China outside their own primary disciplines. The book provides an up-to-date and clear guide to the changes which have taken place in China in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including the recent further changes which are taking place under Xi Jinping’s regime. It draws on the enormous body of empirical and theoretical research that is being carried out by economists, political scientists, and sociologists on China, but is itself written in non-technical and accessible language. It does not assume any previous knowledge of China and explanations of Chinese terms are provided throughout the book. It includes a map, a chronology, a glossary of Chinese terms, biographical notes on key figures, and a guide to further reading.

Author : Bob Adamson,Anwei Feng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000487022

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Multilingual China by Bob Adamson,Anwei Feng Pdf

Multilingual China explores the dynamics of multilingualism in one of the most multilingual countries in the world. This edited collection comprises frontline empirical research into a range of important issues that arise from the presence of 55 official ethnic minority groups, plus China’s search to modernize and strengthen the nation’s place in the world order. Topics focus on the dynamics of national, ethnic minority and foreign languages in use, policy making and education, inside China and beyond. Micro-studies of language contact and variation are included, as are chapters dealing with multilingual media and linguistic landscapes. The book highlights tensions such as threats to the sustainability of weak languages and dialects, the role and status of foreign languages (especially English) and how Chinese can be presented as a viable regional or international language. Multilingual China will appeal to academics and researchers working in multilingualism and multilingual education, as well as sinologists keen to examine the interplay of languages in this complex multilingual context.

Author : Hong Liu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041533859X

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The Chinese Overseas by Hong Liu Pdf

Author : Wang Gungwu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814491945

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Joining the Modern World by Wang Gungwu Pdf

For the past century, all kinds of Chinese people seemed to have tried to be “modern”. At the same time, the standards of modernity have been set elsewhere and they seem always to be higher than what has been achieved. That makes most Chinese work harder, but some may well wonder if standards rise so that China will always get a poor report card at the end of each year. The ongoing drama of Chinese people seeking to be modern has been enacted in different parts of the world. There are interesting differences among these Chinese, depending on where they have been living. The general trend, however, is unmistakable. The striving for betterment is supported by a strong capacity to adapt and change, and this is reflected in the way the Chinese seize new opportunities when they occur. The essays here describe some of these efforts both inside and outside China, and form a small mosaic of Chinese practising the art of modernising. Contents:Joining the Modern WorldThe Chinese Revolution and the Overseas ChineseA Single Chinese Diaspora?Hong Kong and an Ambivalent ModernityThe Shanghai-Hong Kong LinkageTransforming the Trading ChineseChinese Values and Memories of Modern WarModern Work Cultures and the Chinese Readership: General. Keywords:

Author : Ien Ang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134512928

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On Not Speaking Chinese by Ien Ang Pdf

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese". From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies.

Author : Sude,Mei Yuan,Fred Dervin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783662610688

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An Introduction to Ethnic Minority Education in China by Sude,Mei Yuan,Fred Dervin Pdf

Chinese ethnic minority education is virtually unknown to readers outside China. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data, this book examines the basic education policies for ethnic minorities in China and describes policy implementation. It also discusses successful case studies, restrictive factors, existing gaps and challenges as well as the associated problems, highlighting teacher training and the role of policymakers. The authors propose recommendations to address the challenges faced by Chinese education, and to develop and implement culturally sensitive basic education for ethnic minorities in the country. Offering a rare glimpse inside minority schools in different parts of the country, the book appeals to educators, scholars, decision-makers and anyone interested in diversity education (intercultural, multicultural, global education).

Author : Linzhu Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004380578

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Self-determination and Minority Rights in China by Linzhu Wang Pdf

In this book Linzhu Wang offers an insightful analysis of the rights of China’s minorities from the perspective of self-determination.

Author : Robyn Iredale,Naran Bilik,Guo Fei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317474883

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China's Minorities on the Move by Robyn Iredale,Naran Bilik,Guo Fei Pdf

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 minorities impact such issues as education, ethnic identity, the environment, local economy, labor, and regional development. Han-minority interactions within a number of regions are also examined.

Author : Yanzhong Wang,Sai Ding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811955044

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Social and Economic Stimulating Development Strategies for China’s Ethnic Minority Areas by Yanzhong Wang,Sai Ding Pdf

This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China’s poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society. Offering an essential reference guide, the book will help readers understand the process, achievements, problems, and future development with regard to building a moderately prosperous society in the new era.

Author : Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402080395

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Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China by Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun Pdf

Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua - a speech of no native speakers - and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement. The contributors of this volume provide the first comprehensive scrutiny of this sweeping linguistic revolution from three unique perspectives. First, outside scholars critically question the parities between constitutional rights and actual practices and between policies and outcomes. Second, inside policy practitioners review their own project involvements and inside politics, pondering over missteps, undergoing soul-searching, and theorizing their personal experiences. Third, scholars of minority origin give inside views of policy implementations and challenges in their home communities. The volume sheds light on the complexity of language policy making and implementing as well as on the politics and ideology of language in contemporary China.