This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at such core issues as:

- the ethnic minorities or groups in the country of concern, how many ethnic groups, population, language and culture group they belong to, traditional religions and arts
- government policy towards the ethnic minorities or groups
- the economies of the ethnic minorities or groups and the relation with the national economy;
- problems of national integration caused by the ethnic minorities...