SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentMA Program of Ethnology, First Year PhD Program of Ethnology, First Year MA Program of Ethnology, Second Year
Course NameModernization and Ethnic Groups of Southwest China
InstructorHOLM DAVID LEOPOLD
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

General note: for each of the following weeks, students will be required to attend three hours of class. They will also be required to spend on average an additional four and a half (4.5) hours a week on reading assignments, homework, and class preparations. It is expected that students will have read the material in the following weekly assignments before coming to class.



Overview of Weekly Topics:




  1. 1. Ethnicity and Modernity

  2. 2. Policy on Nationalities in the PRC

  3. 3. Ethnic Groups and the Chinese Revolution

  4. 4. Ethnic Groups and the Reform Period

  5. 5. Population and Ethnic Classification

  6. 6. Political Participation

  7. 7. The Village Economy

  8. 8. Transport and Infrastructure

  9. 9. Commerce and Trade



Week 10. Tourism



Week 11. Education, Science, and Technology



Week 12. Medicine



Week 13. Language and Script



Week 14. Media and Communications



Week 15. Family Structure and Lifestyle



Week 16. Customs and Religious Practices



Week 17. Social Security and Policing



Week 18. Environmental Protection



 



Weekly Topics and Readings



 




  1. 1. Ethnicity and Modernity



 



Required reading:



Olaf Zenker (2011). Autochthony, ethnicity, indigeneity and nationalism. Critique of Anthropology 31(1) 63-81



 



Recommended reading:



 



Adam Fforde (2009). Coping with Facts: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Problem of Development. Sterling VA: Kumarian Press



 




  1. 2. Policy on Nationalities in the PRC



 



Required reading:



 



Joseph Stalin (1936). Marxism and the National and Colonial Question: a collection of articles and speeches. London: Lawrence and Wishart



 



Recommended reading:



 



“Minzu zhengce changshi” bianjizu 民族政策常????, ed. (1999). Minzu zhengce changshi 民族政策常?. Beijing: Hongqi chubanshe



 




  1. 3. Ethnic Groups and the Chinese Revolution



 



Required reading:



 



Diana Lary. Communism and Ethnic Revolt: Some Notes on the Chuang Peasant Movement in Kwangsi 1921–31. The China Quarterly 49: 126-135



 



Recommended reading:



 



Colin Mackerras (1995). China’s Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration Since 1912. New York: St. Martin's Press



 



Jerome Ch'en (1992). The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895–1937. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe



 




  1. 4. Ethnic Groups and the Reform Period



 



Required reading:



 



Katherine Palmer Kaup (2003). Regionalism versus Ethnic nationalism in the People's Republic of China. The China Quarterly 172: 863–884



 



Recommended reading:



 



Mette Halskov Hansen. The Call of Mao or Money? Han Chinese Settlers on China's South-western Borders. The China Quarterly 158: 394-413



 



Thomas Heberer (1989). China and its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation? translated by Michael Vale. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe



 




  1. 5. Population and Ethnic Classification



 



Required reading:



 



Charles F. McKhann (1995). The Naxi and the Nationalities Question. In Stevan Harrell, ed., Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 39-62



 



Recommended reading:



 



Huang Guangxue ?光? (1995), Zhongguo de minzu shibie 中?的民族??. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.



 



Stevan Harrel (1996). The Nationalities Question and the Prmi Problem. In Melissa J. Brown, ed. Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 274-296



 




  1. 6. Political Participation



 



Required reading:



 



Xiaowei Zang. Ethnic Representation in the Current Chinese Leadership. The China Quarterly 153: 107-127



 



Recommended reading:



 



Hu Zhong’an 胡中安, ed. (1995). Minzu zizhi difang zizhi tiaoli xuanbian 民族自制地方自制?例??. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe



 



Duan Eryu 段?煜 and Liu Baoming ??明 (1994). Zhongguo minzu zizhi difang xingzheng guanlixue 中?民族自治地方行政管理?. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu xueyuan chubanshe.



 



Qin Naichang 覃乃昌 (2002). Guangxi minzu zizhi difang lifa yanjiu ?西民族自治地方立法研究. Nanning: Guangxi minzu chubanshe.



 




  1. 7. The Village Economy



 



Required reading:



 



Thomas Heberer (2005). Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Identity: A Case Study among the Liangshan Yi (Nuosu) in China. The China Quarterly 182: 407-427



 



Recommended reading:



 



Luo Guozhang ??璋 and Wang Weizhang 王?漳, eds. (1994). Guangxi tudi liyong shi ?西土地利用史. Nanning: Guangxi renmin chubanshe



 



Robyn Iredale et al. (2003). China’s Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies. Armonk [NY]: M.E. Sharpe



 




  1. 8. Transport and Infrastructure



 



Required reading:



 



To be advised.



 



Recommended reading:



 



Kaifa da xinan congshu bianji weiyuanhui ??大西南????委??, ed. (1991). Kaifa da xinan ??大西南. Beijing: Xueyuan chubanshe



 




  1. 9. Commerce and Trade



 



Required reading:



 



Christopher A. McNally (2004) Sichuan: Driving Capitalist Development Westward. The China Quarterly 178: 426-447



 



Recommended reading:



 



Li Zhuqing 李竹青 and Shi Tongyang 石通? (1994). Shaoshu minzu diqu bianjing maoyi yanjiu 少?民族地??境?易研究. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe



 



Week 10. Tourism



 



Required reading:



John A Donaldson (2007). Tourism, Development and Poverty Reduction in Guizhou and Yunnan. The China Quarterly 190: 333-351



 



Recommended reading:



 



Tim Oakes (1998). Tourism and modernity in China. London: Routledge



 



Tim Oakes and Donald S. Sutton, eds. (2010). Faiths on display: religion, tourism, and the Chinese state. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010



 



Week 11. Education, Science, and Technology



 



Required reading:



 



Lin Yi (2007). Ethnicization through Schooling: The Mainstream Discursive Repertoires of Ethnic Minorities. The China Quarterly 192: 933-948



 



Recommended reading:



 



Mette Hansen (1999). Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press



 



Gerard A. Postiglione, ed. (1999). China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling and Development. New York & London: Falmer Press



 



Week 12. Medicine



 



Required reading:



 



Liu Xiaoxing (2001). The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan and Chuxiong. In Harrell, ed., Perspectives on the Yi, 267-282



 



Recommended reading:



 



Yizu gu wenxian yu chuantong yiyao kaifa guoji xueshu yantaohui zuweihui 彝族古文?与??????????研???委?, ed. (2002). Yizu gu wenxian yu chuantong yiyao kaifa guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji 彝族古文?与??????????研???文集. Kunming: Yunnan minzu chubanshe



 



Week 13. Language and Script



 



Required reading:



 



Henry G. Schwartz. Communist Language Policies for China's Ethnic Minorities: The First Decade. The China Quarterly 12: 170-182



 



Recommended reading:



 



David Bradley (2001). Language Policy for the Yi. In Stevan Harrell, ed. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 195-213



 



Minglang Zhou (2003). Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949–2002. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter



 



Week 14. Media and Communications



 



Required reading:



 



To be advised.



 



Recommended reading:



 



Miquel de Moragas Spà and Carmelo Garitaonandía (1995). Decentralization in the global era: television in the regions, nationalities and small countries of the European Union. London: John Libbey



 



Susan L. Shirk, ed. (2011). Changing media, changing China. New York : Oxford University Press, c2011



 



Week 15. Family Structure and Lifestyle



 



Required reading:



 



Erik Mueggler (2001). The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China. Berkeley: University of California Press, Chapter 9 ‘A Shattered Gourd’, pp. 285-320



 



Recommended reading:



 



Lu Hui (2001). Preferential Bilateral-Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan. In Harrell, ed., Perspectives on the Yi, 68-80



 



Week 16. Customs and Religious Practices



 



Required reading:



 



Emily Chao (1996). Hegemony, Agency, and Re-Presenting the Past: The Invention of Dongba Culture among the Naxi of Southwest China. In Melissa J. Brown, ed. Negotiating Ethnicities, 208-239



 



Recommended reading:



 



Louisa Schein (2000). Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Durham & London: Duke University Press



 



Ren Yinong 任一? et al., ed. (1994). Minzu zongjiao zhishi shouce 民族宗教知?手?. Beijing: Zhonggong zhongyang dangxiao chubanshe.



 



Week 17. Social Security and Policing



 



Required reading:



 



To be advised.



 



Recommended reading:



 



Linda Wong (1998). Marginalization and Social Welfare in China. New York and London: Routledge



 



Michael Dutton (2005). Policing Chinese politics: a history. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press



 



Week 18. Environmental Protection



 



Required reading:



 



Ralph Litzinger. The Mobilization of “Nature”: Perspectives from North-west Yunnan. The China Quarterly 178: 488-504



 



Recommended reading:



 



To be advised.



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant


Requirement/Grading

book review (500 words), due Week 3 5%



book review (750 words), due Week 6 10%



Mid-term report (2000 words), due Week 9 35%



Final report (3000 words), due Week 18 50%



 



All assignments are to be submitted in English. Mid-term and Final reports are to be properly referenced, conform to style guidelines (Harvard or Chicago system), and include a full bibliography of works consulted. Full details of these requirements will be included in a separate hand-out.



 


Textbook & Reference

Supplementary Readings:



 



Xiaolin Guo (2008). State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest. Leiden and Boston: Brill



 



June T. Dreyer (1976). China's Forty Millions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press



 



James Leibold (2010). More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese Internet. The China Quarterly 203: 539-559



 



The Kwangsi Way in Kuomintang China, 1931–1939. By Eugene William Levich. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 1993



 



The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands, Leo K. Shin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006



 



Soviet Foreign Policy and Southeast Asia. By Leszek Buszynski. Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1986



 



Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers. edited by Morris Rossabi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004



 



Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China. By Katherine Palmer Kaup. [Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000



 



Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934–1938. By Gregor Benton. Berkeley & Oxford: University of California Press, 1992



 



Concord and Conflict: The Hui Communities of Yunnan Society in a Historical Perspective. By Jianping Wang. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1996



 



Guojia minwei bangongting ?民委?公? and Guojia minwei zhengce yanjiushi ?家民委政策研究室, eds. (1996). Guojia minwei wenjian xuanbian ?家民委文件?? 1985-1995. Beijing: Zhongguo minhang chubanshe, 2 vols.



 



Shu, Jing, Minority nationalities in China : their social formation, geographical location, and differentiation from the Han majority. Ann Arbor, Michigan : UMI Dissertation Services, A Bell & Howell Co., 1991 printing, [c1989]



 



Journals:



 



The China Quarterly



The China Journal



Asian Ethnology



China Report



China Information



Journal of Contemporary China



China Perspectives



Asian Ethnicity


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