This volume analyzes the successes and failures of foreign interventions in intrastate ethnic wars. Adding value to current research in the fields of international security and conflict resolution, it adopts the unique approach of considering successes of third party actions not by durable peace established in a target country (which is the more traditional approach) but by act...(展开全部)

Remer, Charles Frederick 雷麥 (1889-1972) Alternative Names: Lei Mai Religious Affiliation: American Church Mission 美國聖公會傳教士，1912年來華，1913年任上海聖約翰大學經濟學系教授、主任。 編著有： Readings in Economics for China (1922); The Foreign Trade of China (1926); American Investment in China (1929); A Study of Chinese Boycotts (1933).

Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a popu...(展开全部)

Sociologist and educator Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982) was a coauthor of the classic sociological study "Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture". With her husband, Robert S. Lynd, she studied the beliefs and practices of the residents of a small industrial town to provide a unique portrait of American life in the 1920s. They returned to the town during the Great ...(展开全部)

"This book is primarily about the peoples of Liangshan and Panzhihua. However, it also has quite a bit to say about ethnic relations in the People's Republic, about ethnology, and about the nature of the Chinese state and its future." - Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan...(展开全部)

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this path-breaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, ...(展开全部)

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 milli...(展开全部)

The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the gove...(展开全部)

It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do we disentangle discrimmation and preferences for certain groups from the everyday working of labor markets and educational institutions or privileging family members or those with similar educati...(展开全部)