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Mullaney, Thomas S

Coming to terms with the nation ethnic classification in modern China Thomas S. Mullaney ; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson - Berkeley University of California Press 2011 - xxiv, 232 p ill., maps 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-215) and index

Identity crisis in postimperial China -- Ethnicity as language -- Plausible communities -- The consent of the categorized -- Counting to fifty-six -- Conclusion: a history of the future -- Appendix A: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1951, according to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission -- Appendix B: Ethnotaxonomy of Yunnan, 1953, according to the Yunnan Nationalities Affairs Commission -- Appendix C: Minzu entries, 1953/1954 census, by population -- Appendix D: Classification squads, phases one and two -- Appendix E: Population sizes of groups researched during phase one and phase two.

ISBN: 9780520262782 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnology -- General -- Ethnicity -- Communist Era--History--China--20th century.
Ethnology -- Regional -- Ethnicity -- Yunnan -- Communist Era
Ethnicity--China.
Minorities--Government policy--China.