Seeing for the state: The role of social scientists in China's ethnic classification project

Asian Ethnicity

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-342

  Mullaney, Thomas S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Chinese Communism; Ethnic classification; Ethnic minorities; Ethnicity; Ethnology; Ethnopolitics; Governmentality; History; Linguistics; Minzu; Minzu shibie; Nationality; People's Republic of China; Social science; Taxonomy; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958516558     PISSN: 14631369     EISSN: 14692953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2010.510874     Document Type: Article

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