Ebook: Coming to terms with the nation : ethnic classification in modern China
Author: Mullaney Thomas Shawn
- Tags: Ethnology -- China -- History -- 20th century, Ethnicity -- China, Minorities -- Government policy -- China, China -- Population, ethnic groups, minorities, population, China, nias, Ethnicity, Ethnology, Minorities -- Government policy, Population
- Series: Asia-Local studies/global themes 18
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkeley, Calif., China, nias, China
- Language: English
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China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. This book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie).