Creating the Zhuang
Subtitle: Ethnic Politics in China
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781555878863
Subjects: Central government policies; Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Political structure & processes; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; China - History - 20th Century; Nationalism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Asia - China; International Relations - General; 1949-; China; Ethnic relations; Political aspects; Politics and government; Zhuang (Chinese people)
Description: "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 16 million Zhuang as China's largest minority nationality in the early 1950s, granting then regional autonomy. Prior to this, however, the Zhuang did not share a common ethnic identity. Katherine Palmer Kaup explores why the CCP in effect created the Zhuang nationality. Why did it launch a massive propaganda campaign to increase nationality consciousness? How is the party now responding to the Zhuang's assertive political demands?".

"This study unveils the unique culture of the Zhuang people, showing at the same time the CCP's skillful balancing of ethnic and regional loyalties over the past fifty years to integrate the diversity of China's ethnic mosaic."--BOOK JACKET.