Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

Introduction Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to Them 3(37) Stevan Harrell PART I THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY Scholarly and Official Discourses 37(178) The Naxi and the Nationalities Question 39(24) Charles F. McKhann The History of the History of the Yi 63(29) Stevan Harrell Defining the Miao Ming, Qing, and Contemporary Views 92(25) Norma Diamond Making Histories Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past 117(23) Ralph A. Litzinger Pere Vial and the GNI-P'A Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project 140(46) Margaret Byrne Swain Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935 186(29) Shelley Rigger PART II THE HISTORY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY The Process of Peoples 215(114) Millenarianism, Christian Movements, and Ethnic Change Among the Miao in Southwest China 217(31) Siu-woo Cheung Chinggis Khan From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero 248(30) Almaz Khan The Impact of Urban Ethnic Education on Modern Mongolian Ethnicity, 1949-1966 278(23) Wurling Borchigud On the Dynamics of TAI/DAI - LUE Ethnicity An Ethnohistorical Analysis 301(28) Shih-chung Hsich Glossary 329(4) References 333(34) Contributors 367(2) Index 369