{"product_id":"coming-to-terms-with-the-thomas-mullaney-9780520272743","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 0520272749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520272743\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 Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.70d","brand":"Thomas Mullaney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946699456767,"sku":"9780520272743","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_941ad687-7e6a-4312-bac9-3ab687933792.jpg?v=1681514630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coming-to-terms-with-the-thomas-mullaney-9780520272743","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}