Communist Multiculturalism

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K....

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description Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national. Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1223472025-03-24T00:15:26Z Communist Multiculturalism McCarthy, Susan Social and cultural anthropology Marxism and Communism Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national. Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them. 2023-11-17T10:11:43Z 2023-11-17T10:11:43Z 2023-08-28T08:09:51Z 2011 book ONIX_20230828_9780295800417_11 OCN: 774399879 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75798 9780295800417 9780295989082 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122347 eng Studies on Ethnic Groups in China open access image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75798/8/9780295800417.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75798/8/9780295800417.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75798/1/9780295800417.pdf University of Washington Press University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295800417 10.6069/9780295800417 05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4 9780295800417 9780295989082 University of Washington Press 248 Seattle open access
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