Part I: The Ethnic Economy of Citizenship: Comparison with
Aboriginal Taiwan
Part II: Ethnic Sensitivity: Contingent Identities
Part III: Ethnic Traits: after Assimilation
Part IV: Ethnic Religion: the Adaptation of Islam
Part V: Ethnic Language: Educational Practices
Part VI: Ethnic Schooling: Sluggish Enrollment
Chih-yu Shih, National Chair Professor of 2001-2003 at National Taiwan University, teaches Chines politics, cultural studies and political psychology. He received his MPP from Harvard University and Ph.D from the University of Denver. In addition to 33 Chinese books, his English publications include Collective Democracy, State and Society in China's Political Economy, Symbolic War, China's Just World and The Spirit Chinese Foreign Policy. His ethnicity is Chinese Miao.
'An important piece of work on the study of Chinese ethnicity' -
Journal of Contemporary Asia
In this new work on ethnicity and identity, Chih-yu Shih, one of
the most original and productive scholars writing about China,
analyzes a variety of minority-group perspectives in their 'China
moments' of dealing with the state ...providing new insights into
what it means to be Chinese today. - Peter Van Ness, Contemporary
China Centre, Australian National University
Professor Shih cites unprecedentedly rich material from a wide
variety of Chinese minorities to show that people construct their
ethnicities more variously than any of the usual theories would
predict. The book remakes political anthropology as a kind of plate
tectonics involving more collisions, subductions, withdrawals and
contingencies than most accounts of ethnicities admit. Shih shows
that such a view is needed to describe the nation that has become
most populous. - Lynn White, Princeton University
'an important piece of work on the study of Chinese ethnicity' -
Journal of Contemporary Asia
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