Contents
Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to Them
Stevan Harrell
PART I
THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY
Scholarly and Official Discourses
THE NAXI AND THE NATIONALITIES QUESTION
Charles F. McKhann
THE HISTORY OF THE HISTORY OF THE YI
Stevan Harrell
Ming, Qing, and Contemporary Views
Norma Diamond
Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past
Ralph A. Litzinger
Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project
Margaret Byrne Swain
VOICES OF MANCHU IDENTITY, 1635 – 1935
Shelley Rigger
PART II
THE HISTORY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY
MILLENARIANISM, CHRISTIAN MOVEMENTS, AND ETHNIC CHANGE AMONG THE MIAO IN SOUTHWEST CHINA
Siu-woo Cheung
From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero
Almaz Khan
THE IMPACT OF URBAN ETHNIC EDUCATION ON MODERN MONGOLIAN ETHNICITY, 1949 – 1966
Wurlig Borchigud
ON THE DYNAMICS OF TAI/DAI-LUE ETHNICITY
Shih-chung Hsieh