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Ethnicity and the state: the Hua Miao of southwest China
Ethnicity and the state • New Brunswick, N.j. • Published In 1993 • Pages: 55-78
By: Diamond, Norma.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses relations between the Chinese State and its ethnic minorities since the 1949 socialist revolution. It highlights a longstanding contradiction in the Chinese Communist Party's minority policies. The Communist government has issued a series of national laws that seek to promote the language, culture and religion of ethnic minorities, such as the Hua Miao of Southwest China, by providing them with administrative autonomy. In practices, however, the party (through its local cadres) has been deeply committed to the political goal of building a strongly nationalistic China where unity of its citinzens assumes primacy over linguistic and cultural differences. One important consequence of this contradiction has been the forced imposition of core Han Chinese (China proper) family model and cultural values on non-Han minorities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Cultural identity and pride
- Phonology
- Linguistic identification
- Political movements
- Revolution
- Form and rules of government
- Community structure
- Research and development
- Public welfare
- Government regulation
- External relations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Miao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- China (Hua Miao of Northwest China)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Norma Diamond
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92234140
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Hmong (Asian people)