Introduction: Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to them
Part One | The Historiography of Ethnic Identity: Scholarly & Official Discourses
1. The Naxi and the Nationalities Question
2. The History of the History of the Yi
3. Defining the Miao
4. Making Histories
5. Pere Vial and the Gni-P'a: Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project
6. Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935
Part Two | The History of Ethnic Identity: The Process of Peoples
1. Millenarianism, Christian Movements, & Ethnic Change Among the Miao in Southwest China
2. Chinggis Khan: From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero
3. The Impact of Urban Ethnic Education on Modern Mognolian Ethnicity, 1940-1966
4. On the Dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue Ethnicity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis
Glossary
References
Contributors
Index