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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

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With well over a 100 million adherents, Buddhism emerged from near-annihilation during the Cultural Revolution to become the largest religion in China today. Despite this, Buddhism's rise has received relatively little scholarly attention. The present volume, with contributions by leading scholars in sociology, anthropology, political science, and religious studies, explores the evolution of Chinese Buddhism in the post-Mao period with a depth not seen before in a single study. Chapters critically analyze the effects of state policies on the evolution of Buddhist institutions; the challenge of rebuilding temples under the watchful eye of the state; efforts to rebuild monastic lineages and schools left broken in the aftermath of Mao's rule; and the development of new lay Buddhist spaces, both at temple sites and online.Through its multidisciplinary perspectives, the book provides both an extensive overview of the social and political conditions under which Buddhism has grown as well as discussions of the individual projects of both monastic and lay entrepreneurs who dynamically and creatively carve out spaces for Buddhist growth in contemporary Chinese society. As a wide-ranging study that illuminates many facets of China's Buddhist revival, Buddhism after Mao will be required reading for scholars of Chinese Buddhism and of Buddhism and modernity more broadly. Its detailed case studies examining the intersections among religion, state, and contemporary Chinese society will be welcomed by sociologists and anthropologists of China, political scientists focusing on the role of religion in state formation in Asian societies, and all those interested in the relationship between religion and social change.

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