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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2007
- Field Date
- No date
- Coverage Date
- 1940-1993
- Coverage Place
- China (Hua Miao of Northwest China)
- Notes
- Norma Diamond
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78)
- LCCN
- 92234140
- LCSH
- Ethnology--Hmong (Asian people)