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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 government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.

Tai (Southeast Asian people) --- Bai (Chinese people) --- Hui (Chinese people) --- Thaï (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) --- Bai (Peuple de Chine) --- Hui (Peuple de Chine) --- Yunnan Sheng (China) --- Yunnan (Chine : Sheng) --- Ethnic relations --- Relations interethniques --- S06/0240 --- S11/1215 --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949 --- Thaï (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) --- Dai (Southeast Asian people) --- Tai race --- Tayok (Southeast Asian people) --- Thai Che (Southeast Asian people) --- Thai Khe (Southeast Asian people) --- Ethnology --- San Chay (Asian people) --- Hui-hui (Chinese people) --- Hwei (Chinese people) --- Chinese --- Muslims --- Labbu (Chinese people) --- Leme (Chinese people) --- Min-chia --- Min-kia-tze (Chinese people) --- Minjia (Chinese people) --- Minkia (Chinese people) --- Nama (Chinese people) --- Pai (Chinese people) --- Pe-tso (Chinese people) --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Yünnan, China (Province) --- Yün-nan sheng (China) --- Yunnan Province (China) --- Yün-nan (China : Province) --- Unnan-shō (China) --- Unnanshō (China) --- Yün-nan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Yün-nan sheng cheng fu (China) --- Yun Nan Province (China) --- 云南省 (China) --- Ethnic relations. --- Social & cultural anthropology