The Lahu Minority In Southwest China

Author : Jianxiong Ma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136296017

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The Lahu Minority in Southwest China by Jianxiong Ma Pdf

The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system, with the highest suicide rate in the world, large scale human trafficking of their women, alcoholism and poverty. This book, based on extensive original research including long-term anthropological research among the Lahu, provides an overview of the traditional way of life of the Lahu, their social system, culture and beliefs, and discusses the ways in which these are changing. It shows how the Lahu are especially vulnerable because of their lack of political representatives and a state educated elite which can engage with, and be part of, the government administrative system. The Lahu are one of many relatively small ethnic minorities in China – overall the book provides an example of how the Chinese government approaches these relatively small ethnic minorities.

Author : Alain Y. Dessaint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005508554

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Minorities of Southwest China by Alain Y. Dessaint Pdf

Author : Xiaowei Zang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : MaryJo Benton Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110352536

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Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment by MaryJo Benton Lee Pdf

An investigation of the way a segment of the ethnic minority youth in China overcomes staggering obstacles to achieve educational success and admittance to universities. The book suggests how the micro- and macro-level strategies and initiatives that facilitate this success might be adopted in other educational settings.

Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295804071

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Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China by Stevan Harrell Pdf

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, perceived, and promoted differently by different communities at different times. Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China exemplifies a model in which ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations consist of drawing boundaries between one�s own group and others, crossing those boundaries, and promoting internal unity within a group. Leaders and members of ethnic groups use commonalties and differences in history, culture, and kinship to promote internal unity and to strengthen or cross external boundaries. Superimposed on the structure of competing and cooperating local groups is a state system of ethnic classification and administration; members and leaders of local groups incorporate this system into their own ethnic consciousness, co-opting or resisting it situationally. The heart of the book consists of detailed case studies of three Nuosu village communities, along with studies of Prmi and Naze communities, smaller groups such as the Yala and Nasu, and Han Chinese who live in minority areas. These are followed by a synthesis that compares different configurations of ethnic identity in different communities and discusses the implications of these examples for our understanding of ethnicity and for the near future of China. This lively description and analysis of the region�s complex ethnic identities and relationships constitutes an original and important contribution to the study of ethnic identity. Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China will be of interest to social scientists concerned with issues of ethnicity and state-building.

Author : He Ming,David C. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000318050

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Ethnicity and Religion in Southwest China by He Ming,David C. Lewis Pdf

As China strengthens its links with its neighbours through its Belt and Road initiative, there is growing interest in the indigenous peoples of China’s western and southwestern borderlands. This book, based on extensive original research, considers the indigenous peoples of Yunnan province, which is a major gateway between China and the countries of south and south-east Asia. Unlike many books on China’s indigenous peoples which are written by foreigners who have lived for a while in China, this book is comprised of the work of Chinese scholars, many of them members of ethnic minorities themselves, and considers the issues from a Chinese perspective.

Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0295981229

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Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China by Stevan Harrell Pdf

An important study of ethnic identity in China based on fieldwork in southern Sichuan.

Author : Shanshan Du
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023150473X

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Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs by Shanshan Du Pdf

The ideal of "gender equality" seems forever elusive, always tantalizingly over the horizon. Shanshan Du suggests that by shifting our attention away from the various utopian ideals embedded in mainstream feminism, we may be surprised to learn that gender-egalitarian societies do exist. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the Lahu society in Southwest China where practical gender equality has become the byproduct of a potent ideology of gender unity, vividly expressed by the proverb, "chopsticks only work in pairs."

Author : Various
Publisher : ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 35 by Various Pdf

This volume features research articles on Tibetan marmot hunting, Tibetan use of camels, Sinophone Tibetan author Alai, and yurt production and use, complimented by three short stories and seven book reviews. Asian Highlands Perspectives 35 (000-285)Author(s): Various(Full Text)Yurts in Be si chung, A Pastoral Community in A mdo: Form, Construction, Types, and Rituals (001-048)Author(s): Lha mo sgrol ma, and Gerald Roche(Full Text)Tibetan Marmot Hunting (049-074)Author(s): Sangs rgyas bkra shis, and C. K. Stuart(Full Text)A Complex Identity: Red Color-Coding in Alai's Red Poppies (075-101)Author(s): Draggeim, Alexandra(Full Text)Tibetans, Camels, Yurts, and Singing to the Salt Goddesses: An A mdo Elder Reflects on Local Culture (103-124)Author(s): Wenchangjia, and C. K. Stuart(Full Text)A Small Piece of Turquoise (127-141)Author(s): Nyima Gyamtsan(Full Text)Under the Shadow: A Story (143-158)Author(s): Huatse Gyal(Full Text)An Abandoned Mountain Deity (159-193)Author(s): Limusishiden(Full Text)Review Essay: Comparative Borderlands Across Disciplines and Across Southeast Asia (197-217)Author(s): Noseworthy, William B.(Full Text)Review: A Century of Protests (219-225)Author(s): Chandra, Uday(Full Text)Review: Empire and Identity in Guizhou (227-236)Author(s): Luo, Yu(Full Text)Review: Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet (237-242)Author(s): Weiner, Benno(Full Text)Review: Re-Constructed Ancestors and the Lahu Minority in Southwest China (243-253)Author(s): Du, Shanshan(Full Text)Review: Tales of Kha ba dkar po (255-274)Author(s): Zhang, Jundan(Jasmine)(Full Text)Review: Tibet Wild (275-285)Author(s): Bleisch, William V.(Full Text)

Author : Fei HUANG
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004362567

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Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China by Fei HUANG Pdf

Fei HUANG examines the process of landscape making in Dongchuan, the key copper-mining region in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.

Author : James A. Anderson,John K. Whitmore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004282483

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China's Encounters on the South and Southwest by James A. Anderson,John K. Whitmore Pdf

China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia describes the southern periphery of China and the many local and state agents acting first to shift and then to shape this territory over two thousand years, mainly by land but now by sea.

Author : David Michael Deal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015037068221

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National Minority Policy in Southwest China, 1911-1965 by David Michael Deal Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004528062

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Rural Life in Late Socialism by Anonim Pdf

China, Laos, and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, especially for their large rural populations. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their aspirations and desires are articulated as projects involving both citizens and the state. This produces a politics of development that happens through and around the state as people navigate discourses of betterment to imagine and make new futures at individual and collective levels.

Author : James B. Minahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216148920

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Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations by James B. Minahan Pdf

This book addresses the numerous national movements of ethnic groups around the world seeking independence, more self-rule, or autonomy—movements that have proliferated exponentially in the 21st century. In the last 15 years, globalization, religious radicalization, economic changes, endangered cultures and languages, cultural suppression, racial tensions, and many other factors have stimulated the emergence of autonomy and independence movements in every corner of the world—even in areas formerly considered immune to self-government demands such as South America. Researching the numerous ethnic groups seeking autonomy or independence worldwide previously required referencing many specialized publications. This book makes this difficult-to-find information available in a single volume, presented in a simple format accessible to everyone, from high school readers to scholars in advanced studies programs. The book provides an extensive update to Greenwood's Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World that was published more than a decade earlier. Each ethnic group receives an alphabetically organized entry containing information such as alternate names, population figures, flag or flags, geography, history, culture, and languages. All the information readers need to understand the motivating factors behind each movement and the current situation of each ethnic group is presented in a compact summary. Fact boxes at the beginning of each entry enable students to quickly access key information, and consistent entry structure makes for easy cross-cultural comparisons.

Author : Dan Smyer Yü,Karin Dean
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000458428

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Yunnan–Burma–Bengal Corridor Geographies by Dan Smyer Yü,Karin Dean Pdf

This book explores the historical interconnections between Bengal, Burma, and Yunnan (China), and views the corridor as a transregion that exhibits mobility, connectivity and diversity as well as place-based ecogeological uniqueness. With a focus on the concept of corridor geographies that have shared human and environmental histories beyond sharply demarcated territorial sovereignties of modern individual nation-states, it presents the variety and complexity of premodern and modern pathways, corridors, borders, and networks of livelihood-making, local political alliances, trade and commerce, religions, political systems, and colonial encounters. The book discusses crucial themes including environmental edgings of human-nonhuman habitats, transregional migratory routes and habitats of megafauna, elephant corridors in Yunnan–Myanmar–Bengal landscape, framing spaces between India and China, Tibetan–Myanmar corridors, transboundary river systems, narratives of a Rohingya jade trader, cross-border flow of De’ang’s fermented tea, householding in upland Laos, cultural identities, and trans-border livelihoods. Comprehensive and topical, with its wide-ranging case studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of history, routes and border studies, sociology and social anthropology, South East Asian history, South Asian history, Chinese studies, environmental history, human geography, international relations, ecology, and cultural studies.