Download or read book Negotiating Ethnicity in China written by Chih-yu Shih and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Negotiating Ethnicity in China written by Zhiyu Shi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnic Distinctions Local Meanings written by Mary Rack and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a rural area of south China, Rack shows how so-called ethnic minority cultural events have become occasions for the exploration of personal identity by urban elites. She suggests that, historically, ethnic classifications were drawn up as a result of elite concern to demonstrate the existence of a contrasting homogeneous and superior civilization.
Download or read book Chinese Ways of Being Muslim written by Wai Weng Hew and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating Ethnicity in China written by Chih-yu Shih and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity written by Wai Weng Hew and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating Inseparability in China written by Timothy Grose and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER – 2020 Central Eurasian Studies Society's CESS Book Award This is the first book-length study of graduates from the Xinjiang Class, a program that funds senior high school–aged students from Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uyghur, to attend a four-year course in predominately Han-populated cities in eastern and coastal China. Based on longitudinal field research, Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity offers a detailed picture of the multilayered identities of contemporary Uyghur youth and an assessment of the effectiveness of this program in meeting its political goals. The experiences of Xinjiang Class graduates reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and selectively embrace elements of the corporate Chinese Zhonghua minzu identity in order to stretch the boundaries of a nonstate-defined Uyghur identity. Timothy Grose also argues that the impositions of Chinese Mandarin and secular Chinese Communist Party (CCP) values over ethnic minority languages and religion, and physically displacing young Uyghurs from their neighborhood and cultural environment do not lead to ethnic assimilation, as the CCP apparently expects. Despite pressure from state authorities to urge Xinjiang Class graduates to return after their formal education, the majority of the graduates choose to remain in inner China or to use their Xinjiang Class education as a springboard to seek global citizenship based upon membership in a transnational Islamic community. For those who return to Xinjiang, contrary to the political goal of the program, few intend to serve the CCP, their country, or even their hometown. Instead, their homecomings are marred by disappointment, frustration, and discontent. “This study demonstrates persuasively that the Chinese state’s attempts to produce—via delivery of a monolingual ‘Xinjiang Class’ education in inner China—a cohort of Chinese-speaking, Sinicized, secularized, and politically reliable Uyghurs, who will then return to Xinjiang to persuade other Uyghurs to support the Chinese Communist Party line, have had mixed results at best, and at worst constitute a failure.” —Joanne Smith Finley, Newcastle University “This book provides a window into the agency of the Uyghur subjects of the Chinese state-building project. The author’s sustained fieldwork in Xinjiang and efforts to reconnect with Uyghur interlocutors multiple times offer an unprecedented glimpse into how members of the Xinjiang class attempt to negotiate between the state’s objective of producing an educated and loyal Uyghur cohort and their own political, social, and cultural identities and imperatives.” —Michael Clarke, Australian National University
Download or read book Minority Education in China written by James Leibold and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has been ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. This volume recasts the pedagogical and policy challenges of minority education in China in the light of the state's efforts to balance unity and diversity. It brings together leading experts including both critical voices writing from outside China and those working inside China's educational system. The essays explore different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the ro.
Download or read book Chinese Ways of Being Muslim written by Wai Weng Hew and published by Nias Monographs. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many recent works on Muslim societies have pointed to the development of ‘de-culturalization’ and ‘purification’ of Islamic practices. Instead, by exploring architectural designs, preaching activities, cultural celebrations, social participations and everyday practices, this book describes and analyses the formation and contestation of Chinese Muslim cultural identities in today’s Indonesia. Chinese Muslim leaders strategically promote their unique identities by rearticulating their histories and cultivating ties with Muslims in China. Yet, their intentional mixing of Chineseness and Islam does not reflect all aspects of the multilayered and multifaceted identities of ordinary Chinese Muslims – there is not a single ‘Chinese way of being Muslim’ in Indonesia. Moreover, the assertion of Chinese identity and Islamic religiosity does not necessarily imply racial segregation and religious exclusion, but can act against them. The study thus helps us to understand better the cultural politics of Muslim and Chinese identities in Indonesia, and gives insights into the possibilities and limitations of ethnic and religious cosmopolitanism in contemporary societies." -- Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Autonomy and Ethnicity written by Yash P. Ghai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, explores how different states negotiate the competing claims of ethnic groups.
Download or read book Pure and True written by David R. Stroup and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the party’s great success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but they lack a common homeland or a distinct language, and have long been partitioned by sect, class, region, and language. Despite these divisions, they still express a common ethnic identity. Why doesn’t conflict plague relationships between the Hui and the state? And how do they navigate their ethnicity in a political climate that is increasingly hostile to Muslims? Pure and True draws on interviews with ordinary urban Hui—cooks, entrepreneurs, imams, students, and retirees—to explore the conduct of ethnic politics within Hui communities in the cities of Jinan, Beijing, Xining, and Yinchuan and between Hui and the Chinese party-state. By examining the ways in which Hui maintain ethnic identity through daily practices, it illuminates China’s management of relations with its religious and ethnic minority communities. It finds that amid state-sponsored urbanization projects and in-country migration, the boundaries of Hui identity are contested primarily among groups of Hui rather than between Hui and the state. As a result, understandings of which daily habits should be considered “proper” or “correct” forms of Hui identity diverge along professional, class, regional, sectarian, and other lines. By channeling contentious politics toward internal boundaries, the state is able to manage ethnic politics and exert control.
Download or read book Ethnic Relations in Everyday Life written by Tsz-Kin Choi and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Ethnic Relations in Everyday Life: How Ethnicboundary is Reproduced and Negotiated in Hong Kong" by Tsz-kin, Choi, 蔡梓健, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Hong Kong has generally been regarded as a socially homogenous city predominately populated by Chinese. Ethnic minorities are usually absent in public discourse and ethnic relations are generally considered harmonious in the city. However, it is revealed by social researchers that despite the lack of an institutionalized form of racism in Hong Kong, ethnic tensions do exist in the everyday life among individuals. This study is concerned about the everyday level of ethnic relations in Hong Kong. The objective of this study is to reveal how ethnic relations are dealt with by both ethnic minorities and the local Chinese people residing in the city. In particular, the way in which ethnic boundary is constantly reproduced and negotiated by the two parties in their everyday life is examined. Adopting a constructivist approach, ethnic boundary is regarded as something constructed and therefore subject to the flexible negotiation of individuals in their everyday life in this study. The South Asian communities are selected as the target in this study because they are the biggest groups of ethnic minorities and they have a long history of settlement in Hong Kong. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with a total of eighteen individuals with different ethnicities, including Indian, Pakistani, Nepalese, Sri Lankan and also the local Chinese, all having settled in Hong Kong. Semi-structured questions were asked in the interviews to explore their life experience regarding ethnic relations in Hong Kong; their social, cultural and religious practices; and their perceptions on their identity. It is found that both the local Chinese and ethnic minorities have engaged in the reproduction and negotiation of ethnic boundary. Ethnic boundary is reproduced by the local Chinese through racist bias, and by the ethnic minorities through retaining their cultural and religious traditions and establishing social connection with their fellows in the ethnic community. However, it can also be negotiated through the cultural assimilation of ethnic minorities and also cross-ethnic interaction. Moreover, identification with a superordinate social category above ethnicity also helps eliminate ethnic boundary. Based upon an analysis of my intensive interviews, it is suggested that several factors would affect whether individuals from ethnic minority groups tend to reproduce or negotiate ethnic boundary, namely Chinese proficiency, family upbringing, education and the nature of the ethnic culture. While exploring the way in which ethnic boundary is negotiated, it is also revealed that possibilities are opened up to alter the meaning of the social category of "Hong Konger" from a term closely associated with the Chinese ethnicity to one which does not exclude ethnic minorities. This study has also advanced the literature on "doing difference" by recognizing the potential of individual agents in creating alternative understanding of ethnic differences. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4786985
Download or read book A Space of Their Own written by Mei-Jean Kuo Barth and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is Taiwan Chinese written by Melissa J. Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Melissa Brown looks at the issue of Tiawan - specifically whether or not the Taiwanese are of Chinese/Han ethnicity (as is claimed by the Chinese government) - or is there in fact a Taiwanese ethnicity that is in fact unique unto itself (as the Taiwanese claim).
Download or read book Negotiating Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in History Education written by Helen Mu Hung Ting and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book explores the problems and challenges of negotiating the representation of ethnic minorities within history education. It investigates how states balance the (non-)acknowledgement of the reality of cultural or religious diversity, and the promotion of a point of convergence in history education to foster national identity. Shifting our attention away from the intractable challenges posed by post-conflict countries for reconciliation, the contributors draw attention to the need to explore ways to prevent or pre-empt conflicts and exclusion through history education, which could contribute to developing a more sustainable culture of peace. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and sources, this book asks how history education could contribute to forming critical, historically informed, and committed young citizens. The book will be of interest to students and academics working on themes such as nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, history education, multicultural education, peace studies and area studies, as well as practitioners in the fields of history, social studies, civic or citizenship.
Download or read book Negotiating Chinese American Middle class Identity in the Cold War Suburbs written by Jennifer Yi-Heng Fang and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining race-related suburban housing disputes, Chinese American domestic practices, and sites of suburban ethnic community, this project illustrates that suburban Chinese Americans did not blindly assimilate to the dominant streams of white suburban culture. Instead, they actively engaged in selective assimilation-adopting parts of American culture while maintaining connections to their Chinese heritage. In the activities of domestic life, including eating, celebrating holidays, raising children, and socializing, these suburbanites blended elements of American and Chinese cultures to create ethnic identities that were Chinese American yet separate from the experiences of immigrants who settled in Chinatowns. Moreover, new suburban sites of ethnic community, including community centers, churches, and weekend language schools served as arenas of cultural negotiation and contestation. By engaging in such practices, Chinese American suburbanites rearticulated the meanings of Chinese heritage and culture to fit their experiences as white-collar, middle-class suburbanites.
