Fifty Years of Chinese Ethnology: 1949-1999

Author: Song Shuhua
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, ethnology has walked alongside the nation for half a century. At the beginning of the new century, it is highly necessary to conduct a serious review of the path Chinese ethnology has taken over the past half-century and to express hopes for the new century. Summarizing the past helps to correctly understand the present and look forward to the future. This is the purpose of writing this book. At the beginning of the 21st century, it has become evident that Chinese ethnological research faces new and significant opportunities and challenges in the context of China's western development and the modernization of ethnic minority regions. In the process of serving ethnic groups, the sinicization of ethnological research in China will undoubtedly be further developed and refined, and it will also make greater contributions to the development of world ethnology and anthropology.