Zang - Ethnicity in China: a Critical Introduction

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Copyright Xiaowei Zang 2015

The right of Xiaowei Zang to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2015 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5360-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5361-7(pb)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9045-2(epub)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9044-5(mobi)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zang, Xiaowei.

Ethnicity in China : a critical introduction / Xiaowei Zang.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7456-5360-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 0-7456-5360-X (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7456-5361-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 0-7456-5361-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. MinoritiesChina. 2. Ethnic groupsChina. 3. EthnicityChina. 4. EthnologyChina. 5. ChinaEthnic relations. I. Title.

DS730.Z364 2015

305.800951dc23

2014025915

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