{"product_id":"coming-to-terms-with-the-thomas-mullaney-9780520262782","title":"Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China Volume 18","description":"China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or \u003ci\u003eminzu, \u003c\/i\u003e as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (\u003ci\u003eminzu shibie\u003c\/i\u003e). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on recently declassified material and extensive oral histories to describe how the communist government, in power less than a decade, launched this process in ethnically diverse Yunnan. Mullaney shows how the government drew on Republican-era scholarship for conceptual and methodological inspiration as it developed a strategy for identifying \u003ci\u003eminzu\u003c\/i\u003e and how non-Party-member Chinese ethnologists produced a \"scientific\" survey that would become the basis for a policy on nationalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Mullaney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520262786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520262782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2010 pg. 16","brand":"Thomas Mullaney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202648293631,"sku":"9780520262782","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b0d1bbd-777b-4b75-a970-e708cc3f5acd.jpg?v=1756832985","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coming-to-terms-with-the-thomas-mullaney-9780520262782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}