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  • The Mongols at China's Edge

    History and the Politics of National Unity

    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This important study explores the multifaceted Mongol experience in China, past and present. Combining insights from anthropology, history, and postcolonial criticism, Uradyn Bulag avoids romanticizing Mongols either as pacified primitive Other or as gallant resistance fighters. Rather, he portrays them as a people whose communist background and standing in China's northern borderlands has ... Read more

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  • Empire to Nation

    Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World

    Series series World Social Change
    The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of the twentieth century. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Nationalism

    The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier

    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Cosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on these themes to develop a new concept he terms "collaborative nationalism." He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being excluded but against being ... Read more

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  • A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall

    The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia

    Series series Silk Roads
    A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present.During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chinese famine refugees headed to Inner Mongolia, Cheng Tiejun arrived in 1959 as a middle school student. In 1966, when the PRC plunged into the ... Read more

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  • Multicultural China

    A Statistical Yearbook (2014)

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China’s 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, livelihood, agriculture, industry, education, science and technology, culture, sports, and public health for each of these ethnic groups. This material, which is compiled from a variety of sources, will be of great value ... Read more

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    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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