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The problems confronting minority groups in China that combine their Chinese along with their specific cultural identities

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stevan Harrell

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Culture, the Nation, and Chinese Minority Identity

2. The Dai, Bai, and Hui in Historical Perspective

3. Dharma and Development among the Xishuangbanna Dai

4. The Bai and the Tradition of Modernity

5. Authenticity, Identity, and Tradition among the Hui

Conclusion

Chinese Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"McCarthy makes the important conclusion that minority members' own promotion of their culture is to a large extent a way of asserting citizenship rather than a way of establishing dissent. She challenges theories of nation and ethnicity that tend toward regarding internal cultural diversity as a threat to internal cohesion." Mette Hansen, University of Oslo "McCarthy provides rich new ethnographic materials on the contemporary Dai, Bai, and Hui in Yunnan, and contextualizes these materials in each minority's pre-Communist and Communist history. She is fully conversant and engaged with the large literature, in Chinese and English, on ethnic minorities in China." Maris Boyd Gillette, Haverford College