The Mongols at China's edge: history and the politics of national unity
An exploration of the multifaceted Mongol experience in China, past and present. Charting the interface between a state-centred multinational Chinese polity and a primordial nationalist multiculturalism, it explores Mongol ethnopolitical strategies to preserve their heritage.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, ©2002
History
xi, 273 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780742511439, 9780742511446, 074251143X, 0742511448
48871132
1. By way of introduction: Minzu Tuanjie and its discontents
PART I
Producing and reproducing national unity
2. Ritualizing national unity: modernity at the edge of China
3. Naturalizing national unity: political romance and the Chinese nation
PART II
Tensions of empire
4. From inequality to difference: colonial contradictions of class and ethnicity in "Socialist" China
5. Rewriting "Inner Mongolian" history after the revolution: ethnicity, nation, and the struggle for recognition
PART III
Models and morality
6. Models and morality: the parable of the "Little Heroic Sisters of the Grassland"
7. The cult of Ulanhu: history, memory, and the making of an ethnic hero