Portraits of 'Primitives': Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

by Susan D. Blum

Book Overview

Exploring popular notions of ethnic identity in China, Portraits of OPrimitivesO provides the first comprehensive analysis of Han perspectives on minorities. Employing OportraitsO of those ethnic groups perceived as most visibly different, Susan Blum illustrates how the majority Han view other ethnic groups. She traces political, scholarly, and popular concerns with classifying the Han at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and other ethnic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742500926
• ISBN13: 9780742500921
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"