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Tracing China chronicles forty years of fieldwork. The journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China; it spans decades of persistent rural-urban divide and eventually uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Siu traverses both physical and cultural landscapes, examines how political tumults transform into everyday lives, and fathoms the depths of human drama amid China's frenetic momentum toward modernity. She highlights complicity, portraying how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals--laden with historical baggage--venture forward. The question is: Have they become victims of the circumstances created by their own actions? The essays are woven together by key themes in historical anthropology--culture, history, power, place-making, and identity formation, informed by critical social theories, and characterized by a careful scrutiny of fieldwork encounters and archival texts. Stressing process and contingency, Siu argues that culture and society are constructed through human actions with nuanced meanings, moral imagination, and contested interests. She challenges the perception that social/political changes are merely linear historical progressions. Instead, she traces layers of the past in present realities.

Rural-urban relations --- Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Rural-urban interaction --- Urban-rural interaction --- Urban-rural relations --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Hong Kong (China) --- China, Southeast --- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) --- Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China) --- 香港特別行政區 (China) --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu --- 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 --- HKSAR (China) --- Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China) --- Xianggang (China) --- 香港 (China) --- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) --- Hong Kong --- Southeast China --- Civilization. --- S02/0200 --- S03/0620 --- S11/1200 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: Geography, description and travel--Southern provinces --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China

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Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking 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, perceived, and promoted differently by different communities at different times.Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China exemplifies a model in which ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations consist of drawing boundaries between one�s own group and others, crossing those boundaries, and promoting internal unity within a group. Leaders and members of ethnic groups use commonalties and differences in history, culture, and kinship to promote internal unity and to strengthen or cross external boundaries. Superimposed on the structure of competing and cooperating local groups is a state system of ethnic classification and administration; members and leaders of local groups incorporate this system into their own ethnic consciousness, co-opting or resisting it situationally.The heart of the book consists of detailed case studies of three Nuosu village communities, along with studies of Prmi and Naze communities, smaller groups such as the Yala and Nasu, and Han Chinese who live in minority areas. These are followed by a synthesis that compares different configurations of ethnic identity in different communities and discusses the implications of these examples for our understanding of ethnicity and for the near future of China. This lively description and analysis of the region�s complex ethnic identities and relationships constitutes an original and important contribution to the study of ethnic identity.Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China will be of interest to social scientists concerned with issues of ethnicity and state-building.

Acculturation -- China -- Sichuan Sheng. --- Ethnic groups -- Government policy -- China -- Sichuan Sheng. --- Ethnicity -- China -- Sichuan Sheng. --- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Ethnic relations. --- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions. --- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social policy. --- Ethnicity --- Ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Government policy --- Ethnicité --- Groupes ethniques --- Politique gouvernmentale --- Sichuan Sheng (China) --- Sichuan (Chine) --- Ethnic relations. --- Social policy. --- Social conditions. --- Relations ethniques --- Politique sociale --- Conditions sociales --- S03/0612 --- S06/0240 --- S11/1200 --- S11/1215 --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic identities --- Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups) --- Groups, Ethnic --- Kindred groups (Ethnic groups) --- Nationalities (Ethnic groups) --- Peoples (Ethnic groups) --- Ethnology --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- China: Geography, description and travel--Sichuan --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949 --- 四川省 (China) --- Ssu-chʻuan sheng (China) --- Sze-chʻuen (China) --- Sze-chuan (China) --- Sychuan (China) --- Shisen-shō, China --- Szechwan Province (China) --- Szetschwan (China) --- Szʻ-chuen (China) --- Szechwen (China) --- Ssuchuan (China) --- Süchwan (China) --- Szechwan, China --- Ssu-chʻuan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Ssu-chʻuan (China) --- Sichuan Province (China) --- Sichuan (China) --- Four Rivers Province (China) --- Szechuen (China) --- Szechuan (China) --- Xikang Sheng (China) --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- 四川 (China) --- Sri-khron Zhing (China) --- Sri-khron (China) --- Social & cultural anthropology

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The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a matter of identity: Han ethnic identity, Chinese national identity, and the relationship of both of these to the new Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990's. In a unique comparison of ethnographic and historical case studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience-not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric.

Tujia (Chinese people) --- Chinese reunification question, 1949 --- -Nationalism --- Nationalism --- Ethnicity --- Taiwan aborigines --- Tʻu-chia (Chinese people) --- Ethnology --- Chinese unification question, 1949 --- -Reunification of China question, 1949 --- -Unification of China question, 1949 --- -Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Aborigines, Taiwan --- Indigenous peoples --- Taiwan aboriginal peoples --- History --- History. --- Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) --- China --- Taiwan --- Exi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) --- Ethnic relations --- Relations --- Autochtones --- Chine, Question de la réunification de la (1949- ). --- Chinese reunification question, 1949-. --- Ethnic relations. --- Ethnicity. --- Ethnicité --- Ethnische Identität. --- Ethnizität. --- Indigenes Volk. --- International relations. --- Nationalbewusstsein. --- Nationalism. --- Nationalisme --- Nationalismus. --- Tujia (Peuple de Chine) --- Identité ethnique --- Histoire --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte. --- China. --- Chine --- Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (Chine) --- Taiwan. --- Relations interethiques --- -Ethnicity --- S02/0200 --- S11/1080 --- S11/1200 --- S26/0515 --- S26/0840 --- Consciousness, National --- -Aborigines, Taiwan --- Ethnic identity&delete& --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: Social sciences--Migration inside China --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China --- Taiwan--China's claim to Taiwan (and vice-versa) --- Taiwan--Ethnology (aborigines and others) --- -Tujia (Chinese people) --- -Tʻu-chia (Chinese people) --- -History --- 1990s. --- ancestry. --- asia. --- asian history. --- asian identity. --- case study. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese identity. --- chinese independence. --- culture. --- ethnic identity. --- ethnicity. --- ethnography. --- identity politics. --- peoples republic of china. --- political rhetoric. --- political. --- race. --- racism. --- taiwan. --- taiwanese history. --- taiwanese identity. --- united states. --- world history.