General

Achang

Bai

Baima

Baoan

Bulang

Buyi

Chashan

Dai

Daur

Deang

Deng

Dong

Dongxiang

Dulong

Ewenki

Gejia

Gelao

Hani

Hezhe

Jingpo

Jino

Lahu

Lhoba

Li

Lisu

Maonan

Miao

Mongols

Moso

Mulao

Naxi

Nu

Pumi

Qiang

Sani

She

Shui

Tibetan

Tu

Tujia

Uygur

Wa

Xibe

Yao

Yi

Zhuang

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

General articles about China Ethnic Groups

Introductory Articles in Ethnic China

Matriarchy in China: mothers, queens, goddesses and shamans: One ambitious project in which the search for traces of past matriarchal societies leads the reader to the old China culture, history and prehistory, and also to the history, culture, religion and folklore of most of the indigenous peoples living on the borders of the Chinese world.

Scholars Researches available in the Web

Dru C. Gladney.- Lessons (Un) learned: Ten Reflections on Twenty years of Fieldwork in the Peoples Republic of China. 2003

This paper attempts to distill ten lessons learned over the last 20 years of field research in China. It highlights the particularities of doing fieldwork in the Chinese setting and addresses various issues that are special to anthropology of and in China, ranging from practical questions about doing fieldwork to disputes over the actual subject of research within Chinese studies.

He Xingliang.- The Market Economy and Ethnic Relations in China

Along with the rapid development of China""s socialist market economy, there has been great change among the ethnic societies. Two trends have emerged, both of which are unexpected and yet in conformity with the law of social development. One is the evolution of ethnic societies from a semi-closed to an open type. The other is the trend in which parochial, ethnic consciousness is gradually weakening

Lai Hongyi.- THE EVOLUTION OF CHINA¡¯S ETHNIC POLICIES

Jacques Lemione.- Dialectique des ethnicites et des nationalites en Chine. L'homme. 1998


Blake Stone-Banks.- The Nationality Investigations: discourses of Equality and Evolution in China's Minority Policy

The Nationality Investigations project restructured the relationship between China’s minority periphery and its Han-dominated center. It redefined the principles, theories, and aims of Chinese social sciences. Most importantly, in naming and describing China’s nationalities, the Investigations scientifically reified a set of ethnic categories and assumptions.

Wu Da.- On Some Aspects of Ethnic Minorities in China

The Chinese term minzu, designating a nation or nationality, was first used late in the nineteenth century. It was borrowed from Japanese. It is nearly from two meanings: one is "nationality" and the another is "ethnic group".

Haiwang Yuan<Chinese Ethnicities and Their Culture: An Overview

According to a Chinese ethnologist, early Chinese roughly fell into three categories and
lived in three distinct regions. They were farmers on the vast plains of Central China who later
became the bulk of the ethnic Han, nomadic herdsmen on the northern grasslands, and people
who hunted and engaged in primitive farming on the southwestern plateaus.

Zhou Qingsheng.- Aspects of Chinese Ethnosociolinguistic Studies: a Report on the Literature

In this paper, I report on Chinese scholars""studies in ethnosociolinguistics since the foundation of the People""s Republic of China in 1949. It is divided into eight sections: (1) The sociolinguistic situation; (2)Bilingualism; (3) Language choice; (4) Language mixture; (5) Language maintenance and shift; (6) Language and culture; (7)Language planning and standardization.

Free Thesis about China Nacional Minorities

Dayna Dione Hickson.- The implications of government policy and identification of minorities in China. 1977

Xinyi Wu.- The Impact of Ethnic Identity on Student Achievement in China: A Meta Analysis. Brigham Young University. 2006

There have been concerns about low educational achievement of ethnic minority students in China. Previous studies have explored this area, especially in regard to the relationship between economic backwardness and achievement. However, a new field of study examines ethnic identity being considered as a cause of low achievement

Photo Exhibitions

Ethnic China photo exhibitions
More Photo exhibitions

Please contact us: