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Introduction: Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to Them / Stevan Harrell ; Part I: The Historiography of Ethnic Identity: Scholarly and Official Discourses ; The Naxi and the Nationalities Question / Charles F. McKhann ; The History of The History of The Yi / Stevan Harrell ; Defining the Miao: Ming, Qing, and Contemporary Views / Norma Diamond ; Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past / Ralph A. Litzinger ; Pere Vial and The Gni-p'a: Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project / Margaret Byrne Swain ; Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935 / Shelley Rigger.
Part II: The History of Ethnic Identity: The Process of Peoples Millenarianism, Christian Movements, and Ethnic Change Among The Miao in Southwest China / Siu-woo Cheung ; Chinggis Khan: From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero / Almaz Khan ; The Impact of Urban Ethnic Education on Modern Mongolian Ethnicity, 1949-1966 / Wurlig Borchigud ; On the Dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue Ethnicity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis / Shih-chung Hsieh ; Glossary ; References ; Contributors ; Index.