Communist Multiculturalism : Ethnic Revival in Southwest China

University of Washington Press

Communist MulticulturalismEthnic Revival in Southwest China\nAuthor(s): Susan McCarthy, Stevan Harrell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295989099, 978-0295989099\nSynopsis\nOpen-access edition: DOI [url]\n\nThe communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories.