Communist Multiculturalism

Ethnic Revival in Southwest China

By: Susan McCarthy, Stevan Harrell (Foreword by)

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The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.

Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.

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"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

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Politics & Government Political Ideologies & Movements Nationalism History Regional & National History Asian History Society & Culture Social Groups

Ethnic Studies Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies Far-Left Political Ideologies & Movements

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
Culture, The Nation, and Chinese Minority Identity	p. 20
The Dai, Bai, and Hui in Historical Perspective	p. 49
Dharma and Development Among the Xishuangbanna Dai	p. 70
The Bai and the Tradition of Modernity	p. 100
Authenticity, Identity, and Tradition Among the Hui	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 167
Chinese Glossary	p. 179
Notes	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 219
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