Fleeing One Homeland and Adopting Another: The Construction of State Identity in a Northern Thailand Village

ISBN-13: 9781433177200 / Angielski

Zhang Jinpeng

Opis

This book is an ethnographic study on the Han Chinese and cross-border ethnic tribes of Yunnan origin who left the Yunnan Province and migrated to northern Thailand via Myanmar. It explores the political and cultural dimensions related to these people's escaping from one country and submitting to another country.

Spis treści

List of Figures - Introduction - Meilianghe Village amid Remote Mountains and Dense Forests - Displaced Peoples - From Myanmar to Thailand - From Problematic Hill Tribes to Royal Subjects - Granted Citizenship - I Am Thai - Adherence to the Chinese Culture - Conclusion.

O autorze

Professor Zhang Jinpeng (Ph.D.) teaches at the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University, and serves as a doctoral dissertation adviser. Zhang's research interests include the economic lives of ethnic minorities, cross-border ethnic minorities, and the economic history of China. She has published six monographs and more than sixty peer-reviewed articles. She has received research funding from the National Social Science Fund of China. She has been recognized for her academic and professional achievements with accolades such as the first and third prizes in social science studies in Yunnan province, and the Outstanding Teacher Award of Yunnan University, sponsored by Wu Daguan Education Fund, which she won twice. Zhang was also named in 2019 a Yunling Scholar of the Yunnan Provincial Ten-Thousand-researcher Program.