The Xibe Nationality

Name: Xibe, Sipo, Xipo, Sibe

Population: 188,800

Localization: Liaoning Province (Shenyang City and Kaiyuan County) and Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in north Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Introductory Articles

Stephen Selby.- Xibe national archery

Scholars Researches available in the Web

Rachel Harris.- Music among the Sibe of Xinjiang

Ethnomusicologist Dr Rachel Harris spent long periods of fieldwork in Xinjiang, listening and learning about the music of the Sibe, descendants of Qing dynasty military garrisons. In the following edited extract from her book, Singing the Village, Dr Harris gives a biographical sketch of a village musician G'altu, and describes a typical wedding in Çabçal, a county in Sibe.

Taeho Jang and Tom Payne.- Topic Marking and the Construction of Narrative in Sibe

The Sibe language is the language spoken by those members of the Sibe nationality that live in northwest China. The Sibe in northwest China are the descendants of thousands of Sibe soldiers and their families who were assigned to Xinjiang.

Thomas Payne and Taeho Jang.- CONVERBS AND INTERPROPOSITIONAL RELATIONS IN XIBE

Xibe is a Manchu-Tungus language spoken by approximately 40,000 individuals in Northwestern
China (Xinjiang Uygur [Uighur] Autonomous Region). Most of the data for this paper is drawn from natural discourse, primarily folk narratives.

Books about the Xibe

Photo Exhibitions

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Music

Xibe Nationality music
A guide to download their music

Films and Video

Documentary Films about the Xibe
Available dvds and vcds about the Xibe
Image of the the Xibe in the cinema

Art and Handicrafts

The Xibe in the art
Art Exhibitions

Travel

Travel to Xibe lands

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