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"Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating, complex, and vital world of China's national minorities. Drawing on firsthand fieldwork in several minority areas, Michael Dillon introduces us to the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghur of Xinjiang, and the Manchus, and traces the evolution of their relationship with the Han Chinese majority. With chapters devoted to each of the most important minority groups and an additional chapter exploring the parallel but very different world of inter-ethnic relations in Taiwan, Lesser Dragons will…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2018Reaktion Books · 254 pages · 9781780239118
Social conditionsEthnologyGovernment policyEthnic relationsMinoritiesMinorities, social conditionsMinorities, chinaChina, ethnic relations