Negotiating Ethnicity in China

Citizenship as a Response to the State

• Author(s): Chih-yu Shih,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 1134455038
  ISBN_13: 9781134455034
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Civics & Citizenship , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Regional Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

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This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.
Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images of ethnic minority, this book provides an image of the framing of ethnicity by modern state building processes. It will be of vital interest to scholars of political science, anthropology and sociology, and is essential reading to those engaged in studying Chinese society.