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The Yi Nationality Name: Yi, Lolo, Noso, Nuosu Population: 7,700,000 (only in China) Habitat: Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in China. Also in other countries of Southwest Asia |
Introductory
Articles in Ethnic China
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The elusive Yi: The Yi are one of the most interesting and more numerous minorities in China.
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Yi Autonomous Administration: They are spread in most of Yunnan Province, south of Sichuan and southwest of Guizhou.
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Danced funeral of the Awu Yi: this dance is to express the pain for the death of a person, and to open the way for the soul.
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The Zijun Yi: heirs of an old Kingdom: The Zijun or Shamudai, are about 20.000 people living in the banks of Dianchi Lake
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Poverty of the Yi Nationality in Liangshan: Dire poverty among the Yi Nationality in Liangshan Mountains forces children 12 years old to migrate to work in coastal cities.
More introductory articles
Scholars
Researches available in the Web
David Bradley.- The
status of the 44 tone in Nosu
Stevan Harrell.- Ethnicity and kin terms among two kinds of Yi
Stevan Harrell.- Nuoso lacquerware: a traditional craft and its recent transformations.
Stevan Harrell.- The History of the History of the Yi
Stevan
Harrell and Li Yongxiang.- The
History of the History of the Yi Part II. Over the
past 50 years, there has developed an educated, sophisticated, bicultural
minority elite involved in administration of all sorts, particularly in
cultural affairs and in cultural scholarship.
Thomas Heberer.- Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Identity: A Case Study among the Liangshan Yi (Nuosu) in China
James
A. Matisoff.- Much
Adu about something: extrusional labiovelars in a Northern Yi patois.
Marsha
Smith.- Constructing Identities: Tensions in Defining Naxi/Mosuo and Bai/Yi
Ethnicities:
some groups do receive a great deal of provincial and national
subsidization to re-establish cultural educational centers and religious
activities.
Zheng
Chengjun.- Animal
Husbandry and Resource utilization in a Yi community in Xiaoliangshan,
Ninglang County, Yunnan
Free books about the Yi
Goullart, Peter.- Land of the Lamas (Adventures in Secret Tibet)
Seventh Sister and the Serpent. Narrative poem of the Yi people
Vicomte D`Ollone - In forbidden China.
Henri d'Ollone - Les derniers Barbares, 1911.
Aimé-François
Legendre - Le far-west chinois: Kientchang et Lolotie (1910) (In French)
Yi priests and witches in Paul Vial work: Here we translate his words regarding the Yi religious specialists.
The Nosu (Yi from Liangshan) in Camps and Trails in China: Roy Chapman Andrews, Camps and Trails in China (1918)
Books and references
Interesting
book about Yi nationality painting: "Na
Shi", meaning drawing or painting in the Yi language, was a style
of painting of the primitive Yi nationality, which was used as offering
sacrifice to their gods and ancestors in funeral ceremonies.
Photo Exhibitions
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Ethnic China photo exhibitions
Music
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Yi music
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A guide to download their music
Films
and Video
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Documentary Films about the Yi
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Available dvds and vcds about the Yi
Art
and Handicrafts
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Art Exhibitions
Travel
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Travel to Yi lands
Wiki
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