Local Government Agency; Manipulating Tujia Identity  

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Brown, melissa J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 28 no. 3 (Jul. 2002), page 362-395.
Topik: Manipulating Tujia Identity
Fulltext: 362MC283.pdf (256.98KB)

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Analysesof the People’s Republic of China (PRC) frequently draw strict distinctions between the state and its agents, viewed as monolithic, and locals, viewed as heterogeneous but largely reactionary. For example, “state-imposed” minzu (ethnic) categoriesoften contrast with on-the-ground ethnicity (e.g., Heberer, 1989; Harrell, 1990; Gladney, [1991] 1996; Diamond, 1995; McKhann, 1995; Cheung, 1996), although Stevan Harrell shows that “the relationship between minzu and ethnicity, or between state categories and local identities, is a complex and reciprocal one” (Harrell, 1996: 279).1 Chinese scholars also set state agency against local passivity. One anthropologist at the Central University for Nationalities (Zhongyang Minzu Daxue) in Beijing summarized this difference in 1996: “What happens [when official ethnologists make their category decisions] is really this: we tell them what they are, and after a while they get used to it” (Hill Gates, personal communication, 2000).

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