Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Edited by Stevan Harrell, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington.

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China intends to make available all kinds of scholarship on ethnic groups and ethnic relations in China. Works dealing with aspects of a single ethnic group, or with relations between ethnic groups in China, will be considered for publication. We welcome studies of premodern and modern China; mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; and relations among Han people, between Han and other peoples, and among various non-Han peoples. We hope to include works from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to anthropology, history, political science, literature, art, education, and geography.

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

Edited by Stevan Harrell

A succession of Chinese governments, as well as Western missionaries, have sought to define, objectify, and "civilize" ethnic minorities--to make them more like the civilizers. In this volume, ten scholars examine some of these attempts involving groups as culturally different and geographically distant as the Mongols in the North and the Yi in the Southwest.

"[An] absolutely first-rate collection of scholarly essays . . . on the problem of ethnic definition and self-definition among China's peripheral peoples, including the Naxi, Yi, Miao, Mongols, and Manchus. . . . An important book for students of Chinese society."--Library Journal

"Excellent essays . . . on the cultural and social impact of Han colonialism, . . . focusing on the heightened sense of ethnic difference that has emerged in the process and on the invention of ethnic identities that involve the distortion of the past."--Far Eastern Economic Review

1994. 388 pp., maps, notes, bibliog., index, glossary
0-295-97528-8 Paper, $17.95

Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad

Edited by Nicole Constable

Despite the importance and distinctiveness of Hakka ethnicity in China, until now no detailed, comparative analysis of the meaning of Hakka identity has been published. The essays in this volume examine what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China.

1995. 280 pp., maps, tables, notes, glossary, bibliog., index
0-295-97469-9 Cloth, $35.00s

Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China

Jonathan N. Lipman

While narrating a history of the Muslims of northwest China, this book examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once.

1998. 318 pp., 24 photos, maps, glossary, bibliog., index
0-295-97644-6 Paper, $22.50s

Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China

Mette Halskov Hansen

Two very different ethnic minority communities in China are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and reception of state minority education policy in the People's Republic of China.

1999. 248 pp., 12 photos, 2 maps, glossary, bibliog., index
0-295-97809-0 Cloth, $50.00s
0-295-97788-4 Paper, $22.50s

Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928

Edward J. M. Rhoads

A pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Rhoads analyzes the unique evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste to a distinct ethnic group and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled.

2000. 384 pp., 14 illus., notes, glossary, bibliog., index, 6 x 9
0-295-97938-0 Cloth, $55.00s