Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China

Katherine Palmer Kaup

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers 2000

Creating the Zhuang

Ethnic Politics in China

Katherine Palmer Kaup

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373228

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Managing ethnic nationalism within the People's Republic of China has become increasingly challenging. As new reforms widen economic disparities between minorities and the Han majority, even the most assimilated of minorities, the Zhuang, have begun to demand special treatment from the central government. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially recognized the sixteen million Zhuang as China's largest minority nationality in the early 1950s, granting them regional autonomy. Prior to this, however, the Zhuang did not share a common ethnic identity. Katherine Palmer Kaup explores why the CCP in effect created the Zhuang nationality. Why did it launch a massive propaganda campaign to increase nationality consciousness? How is the party now responding to the Zhuang's assertive political demands? This pioneering study unveils the unique culture of the Zhuang people, showing at the same time the CCP's skillful balancing of ethnic and regional loyalties over the past 50 years to integrate the diversity of China's ethnic mosaic.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 Introduction: Ethnic Nationalism Ascendant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The Zhuang Setting: Guangxi and Yunnan on the Eve of the Communist Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3 Early CCP Minority Policy: The Decision to Recognize the Zhuang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Politics: The Consolidation of Central Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5 The Expansion of Regional Autonomy and the Growth of Zhuang Activism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6 Culture: The Creation and Promotion of the Zhuang Cultural Heritage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7 Economics: Development and Disparity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
8 The Rise (and Fall?) of Zhuang Ethnic Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Appendix: The Law of Regional Autonomy, 1 October 1984 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
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About the Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 226

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Published: June 1, 2000
ISBN: 9781626373228