The Ethnic Development of China
Fall semester, 2012
Dr. Jiunn Yih Chang 張駿逸
E-mail:tigercurator@gmail.com
Office hours: 14:00-16:00, Wed.
A. The class will start from Sept. 19, 2012 to Jan. 3, 2013, totally 17 weeks. Class
will be conducted by three sections: teacher's lecture, student's presentation and
discussion.
Grade is evaluated by:
1. Class presentation, 30%. Schedules of the presentation will be settled on the
first day of the class. Students are requested to give a presentation related to
the subject of the week; each student will have one hour to present. The
presentation should be conducted by power point, please e-mail your
materials to the teacher and each classmate in advance.
2. Term paper（the same content as the oral report, but should be strictly of the
academic forms, ie., footnotes, bibliography……）。I pay more attention to
what your own opinions are, instead of a whole lot of quotations from
books.40%.
The deadline of term paper is Jan. 3, 2013. Term-papers should be around
10 pages in length, #12 word size , single space and thesis format. Please
hand in your power point presentation and term paper by disc to the class
leader on Jan. 3, 2013. .
3. Participation and discussion 30%. I hope you will raise questions and try to
join discussion; I will check attendance also.
B. Class schedules and contents
09/19
Introduction About This Class, Presentations’ Arrangement,
General Introduction and Reference Books.
Catherine Kwai Po Ip “Minority Policies in Post-Mao China”, Master
Thesis at the University of British Columbia, 1994.
A Survey of China's Policies Regarding the National Minorities, ed. by
吳仕民、占巴扎布, Beijing: Ren-min Publication, 1995 .
China's Minority Nationalities, ed. by China International Book,
Beijing: China Reconstruct, 1984.
Ethnicity & Ethnic Groups in China, ed. by Chien Chiao and Nicholas
Tapp, Hong Kong: the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989.
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Gang Hechun and Zha Xi (ed.), Chinese Nationalities, Beijing: Zhung-guo
min-zu she-ying yi-shu chu-ban-she,1998.
Dru C. Gladney, "Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring
Majority/Minority Identities", The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53,
No. 1. (Feb., 1994) p. 92-123.
Ethnography and its Methodology.
09/26
no class tonight (class moves to 09/29¸ pls pick up ticket from Angela next
week).
09/29
Attending "Show of the E-lun-chun( 鄂 倫 春 ) Autonomous County's
Performing Art Group".(9/29 Sat. at 國父紀念館 Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial ,
will start at 19:30, but be there around 19:00).
Pls hand in a one-page report of this show on 10/03.
10/03
10/03
Ethnography of the Minorities in North-east China and Inner Mongolia.
Ethnography of the Minorities in the north-west China.
Reference Books:
L. C. Harris, "Xinjiang, Central Asia and the Implications for China`s
Policy in the Islamic world", The China Quarterly, No. 133. (Mar.,
1993).
Hannum, E., Xie, Y., "Ethnic Stratification in Northwest China:
Occupational Differences Between Han Chinese and National
Minorities in Xinjiang", 1982-1990. Demography, Vol. 35, No.3.
(Aug., 1998).
McMillen, D., H., Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang,
1949-1977. Westview Press, 1979.
10/10
no class (the National day)
10/17
Ethnography of the Minorities in the South-West China(II).
Reference Books:
China’s Tibet Fact and Figure 2005.
http://tibet.cn/en/newfeature/figures2006
Ethnography of the Minorities in the Mid-South and South-East China(I).
10/24
Ethnography of the Minorities in the Mid-South and South-East China(II).
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10/31
The Development of the Minorities' Autonomous System.
Reference Books:
Constitution of the People’s Republic of China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/constitution/constitution.html
Rena Singer, “China Also Debates Affirmative Action,” Philadelphia
Inquirer, 20 August 1997.
Heberer, T., China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or
Assimilation?, An East Gate Book, 1989.
Tom Grunfeld, “In Search of Equality: Relations Between China's
Ethnic Minorities and the Majority Han”, Bulletin of Concerned
Asian Scholars, Vol. 17, 1985 .
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, “Regional
Autonomy for Minority Peoples” http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/
premade/9052/autonomy.htm
1st presentation:
11/07
杜睿宸
The Development of the Minorities' Education.
Reference Books:
Lamontagne, J., "National Minority Education in China: A Nationwide
Surveyacross Counties", in G. A. Postiglione (ed) China’s National
Minority Education,Culture, Schooling, and Development (pp.
133-171), New York, Falmer Press.,1999.
Jing Lin, "Policies and Practices of Bilingual Education for the
Minorities in China", Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1997, p. 193-205.
Jan-Ingvar Lofstedt, "Education for National Minorities in China: An
Overview", The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 56, No. 3,
(Summer, 1987) p. 326-337.
2nd presentation: 喬偉 Chyau, Woei
11/14
Attending "Show of the Xin-jiang Autonomous Region's Performing Art
Group".
Pls hand in a one-page report of this show on 11/21.
11/21
The Development of the Minorities' Languages
Henry G. Schwarz, "Communist Language Policies for China’s Ethnic
Minorities: The First Decade", The China Quarterly, No. 12
(Oct.-Dec. 1962), p. 170-182.
June Teufel Dreyer, "Language Planning for China’s Ethnic Minorities",
Pacific Affairs, Vol. 51, No. 3. (Autumn, 1978) p. 369-383.
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11/28
3rd presentation: 李蘊曦 Nicole Kozlowski
The Development of the Minorities' Economy.
Reference Books:
Hongyi Harry Lai, "China’s Western Development Program: It’s
Rationale, Implementation, and Prospects", Modern China, Vol.
28, No. 4 (Oct., 2002), p. 432-466.
Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath, The End of Nomadism?
Druham: Duke University, 1999.
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret, “The Economic Status of China’s Ethnic
Minorities” Preliminary draft of paper being prepared for:
International Research Conference: Poverty, Inequality, Labour
Market and Welfare Reform in China Australia National University
August 25-27, 2004.
Goldstein, Melvyn and Cynthia M. Bell. “The Impact of China’s
Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet.” Asian Survey 29,
no.6. (1989): 619-641.
Yeh, Emily T. “Green Governmentality and Pastoralism in Western
China: Converting Pastures to Grasslands.” Nomadic Peoples 9, no.
1-2. (2005): 9-30.
4th presentation: 克里斯緹 Christie Lucila Clampos Conde
12/05
The Development of the Minorities' Religion.
Reference Books:
Dillon, M., Xinjiang – China`s Muslim Far Northwest. Routledge
Curzon, 2004.
Fowler, Merv and Jeaneane, Chinese Religions,Beliefs and Practices,
Oregon: Suseex Academic Press, 2008.
Lipman, Jonathan Newman, Familiar Strangers, a History of Muslims in
Northwest China, Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1997.
Overmyer, Daniel L., Religion in China Today, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
Tan Guang-guan, Lee Min-sheng, Ma Biao, Guo Hui, Meng Xian,
Overview of the minorities’ religions in China, Beijing: Publishing
House of Central Institute for Nationalities, 1988.
Wickeri, Philip L., Reconstructing Christianity in China, Maryknoll NY:
Orbis Book, 2007.
Unidentified member of the State Council's Bureau of Religious Affairs,
Religion Statistics in the People's Republic of China, published in
Beijing
Review,
Sept.
1-7,
1997,
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/statist
ics.htm
Zhang Qiao-Gui and Chen Shu-Lin, Anthropology of religion
Investigation and study of primitive religion in Yunnan minority
nationalities of China, Publishing House of Sichuan University,
Sichuan, 1993.
5th presentation: Retno Widyastuti、Alexander van der Meer
12/12
The Development of the Minorities' Tourism.
Reference Books:
www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_artqa/2005-08/19/content_72053.htm
http://www.chinaplanner.com
http://www.cnadventure.com/docc/Tourlist
Li Yang; Geoffrey Wall.
“Minorities and tourism: community
perspectives from Yunnan, China”. Journal of Tourism and Cultural
Change, 2009, Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 77 – 98.
Tim Oakes, Tourism and Modernity in China. Routledge, 2006.
6th presentation: 阪口佳奈 Kana Sakaguchi
12/19
The Development of the Minorities' Political Thoughts/Seperatism
Reference Books:
Chandra, K. 2006. What is Ethnic Identity and does it matter? Annual
Review of Political Science: 9.
Wang, Y. "Toward a Synthesis of the Theories of Peripheral Nationalism: A
Comparative Study of China’s Xinjiang and Guangdong". Asian
Ethnicity. 2(2), 2001.
Michael C. van Walt van Praag, The Status of Tibet: History, Rights and
Prospects in International Law, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press,
1987.
Melvyn C. Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and
the Dalai Lama, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Becquelin, N. 2004. Criminalizing Ethnicity: Political Repression in
Xinjiang. China Rights Forum On the Margins, 39(1).
Dwyer, A. 2005. The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language
Policy and Political Discourse. Policy Studies: 15.
7rd presentation: Fabian Foeh
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12/26
The Development of the Minorities' Population.
Reference Books:
Hoddie, Matthew, “Ethnic Identity Change in the People’s Republic of
China: An Explanation Using Data from the 1982 and 1990 Census
Enumerations,” in William Safran (ed.) Nationalism and
Ethnoregional Identities in China, Frank Cass: London, 1998.
Science, and Technology Statistics and State Ethnic Affairs Commission,
Department of Economic Development, The Tabulation on
Nationalities of 2000 Population Census of China, Ethnic Publishing
House: Beijing, 2003.
Information Office of the State Council Of the People's Republic of
China, White Papers From China - Family Planning in China, August
Beijing, 1995 .
http://www.cntravel.biz/c/detail_cn.shtml?White-Papers-From-China--Family-Planning-in-China--913.shtml
8th presentation: 張小梅
01/02
The Development of the Minorities' Modernization
Reference Books:
Mackerras, C., China`s Ethinic Minorities and Globalization,
Routledge Curzon, 2003.
Mackerras, C. China’s Minorities: Integration and Modernisation in
the Twentieth Century. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press,1994.
White Paper on Tibet’s March Towards Modernization, 2001,
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20011108/index.htm
China Tibetology Research Center, Report on the Economic and Social
Development
of
Tibet,
March
2009,
http://www.gov.cn/english/official/2009-03/30/content_1272196.htm
9th presentation: 吳藝鎮 Oh Yejin
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