Ethnic Identity In Tang China
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Ethnic Identity In Tang China
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Author : Marc S. Abramson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-12-31
Ethnic Identity In Tang China written by Marc S. Abramson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with History categories.
Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a population that included Turks, Tibetans, Japanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Persians, and Arabs. Marc S. Abramson's rich portrait of this complex, multiethnic empire draws on political writings, religious texts, and other cultural artifacts, as well as comparative examples from other empires and frontiers. Abramson argues that various constituencies, ranging from Confucian elites to Buddhist monks to "barbarian" generals, sought to define ethnic boundaries for various reasons but often in part out of discomfort with the ambiguity of their own ethnic and cultural identity. The Tang court, meanwhile, alternately sought to absorb some alien populations to preserve the empire's integrity while seeking to preserve the ethnic distinctiveness of other groups whose particular skills it valued. Abramson demonstrates how the Tang era marked a key shift in definitions of China and the Chinese people, a shift that ultimately laid the foundation for the emergence of the modern Chinese nation. Ethnic Identity in Tang China sheds new light on one of the most important periods in Chinese history. It also offers broader insights on East Asian and Inner Asian history, the history of ethnicity, and the comparative history of frontiers and empires.
Ethnic Identity In Tang China
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Author : Marc Samuel Abramson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Ethnic Identity In Tang China written by Marc Samuel Abramson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with China categories.
Separate But Loyal
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Author : Wenfang Tang
language : en
Publisher: Policy Studies (East-West Cent
Release Date : 2010
Separate But Loyal written by Wenfang Tang and has been published by Policy Studies (East-West Cent this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Political Science categories.
Beijing has faced the challenge of granting autonomy to ethnic minorities but maintaining their loyalty to the Chinese state. This paper tackles complex issues of ethnic identity and nationalism among the most politically sensitive groups in China: the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongols, Huis, and Kazaks. Specifically, it draws on original research conducted by the authors, the 2006-2007 Chinese Ethnicity Surveys, to explore the extent to which ethnic minorities are sinicized and the meaning of being Chinese. With an analysis of current arguments about whether national identity in contemporary China is based on a Han-dominant Confucian tradition or a multiethnic society that originated during the Qing empire, Separate but Loyal examines ethnic identity through the lens of ethnic-language learning, religious practices, and interethnic marriage. It also provides an illuminating comparison of perceptions of group identity and national identity in China with those in the United States and Russia. The survey points to some surprising findings, including the fact that ethnic minorities in China showed higher levels of both ethnic identity and national identity than U.S. and Russian respondents. These findings seem to support the argument that national identity is based on the multiethnic Chinese state, and they offer a rare empirical perspective on how the government can maintain the balance needed to preserve its legitimacy.
Changing Identities Of The Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War Ii
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Author : Jennifer Cushman
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 1988-11-01
Changing Identities Of The Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War Ii written by Jennifer Cushman and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-01 with Social Science categories.
In June 1985, a symposium, "Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere in Australia, North America and Southeast Asia. Participants looked at the current thinking about the parameters of identity and shared their own research into the complex issues that overlapping categories of identity raise. Identity was chosen as the focus of the, symposium because perceptions of self - whether by others or by the individual Chinese concerned - appear to lie at the heart ' of the present-day Chinese experience in Southeast Asia, It is also evident that identity wears many guises and that we cannot talk about a single Chinese identity when identity can be determined by the different political, social, economic or religious circumstances an individual faces at any given time. One of the distinctive characteristics of all the essays in this volume is that they are written from an historical perspective. While the papers forcus on how recent developments in Southeast Asian society have shaped Chinese identity, they also discuss those changes in terms of the historical matrix from which they developed. Because many of the essays in this volume combine an historical overview with more recent statistical data, it should serve as a useful companion to the increasingly popular case studies in which much of the writing about the Chinese in Southeast Asia is now cast.
Identity And Ethnic Relations In Southeast Asia
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Author : Chee Kiong Tong
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Identity And Ethnic Relations In Southeast Asia written by Chee Kiong Tong and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Social Science categories.
Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.
The Way Of The Barbarians
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Author : Shao-yun Yang
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-10-14
The Way Of The Barbarians written by Shao-yun Yang and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-14 with History categories.
Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.
Lessons In Being Chinese
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Author : Mette Halskov Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Lessons In Being Chinese written by Mette Halskov Hansen and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Education categories.
This study finds that standardized, homogenizing state education is in itself incapable of instilling in students an identification with the Chinese state, ironically often increasing ethnic identity.
Chinese Identities Ethnicity And Cosmopolitanism
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Author : Kwok Bun Chan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-12-05
Chinese Identities Ethnicity And Cosmopolitanism written by Kwok Bun Chan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-05 with History categories.
Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society. With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity in a range of established places of convergence, Chan draws on extensive experience and knowledge in the field to bring the reader a fresh, fascinating and ultimately very human analysis of migration, culture, identity and the self.
The Ambiguity Of Identity
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Author : J. R. Clammer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Ambiguity Of Identity written by J. R. Clammer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Chinese categories.
National Identity Ethnic Identity And Party Identity In Taiwan
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Author : Chang-Yen Tsai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
National Identity Ethnic Identity And Party Identity In Taiwan written by Chang-Yen Tsai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.