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 or groups;
· the impact of ethnic issues on the country's overall foreign relations.
Author(s): Colin Mackerras
Series: Asia's Transformations
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 256
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 26
2 Ethnic minorities in China......Page 40
3 In Japan but not of Japan......Page 73
4 Ethnicity in Indonesia......Page 89
5 Ethnicity and class in Malaysia......Page 113
6 Singapore multiracial harmony as public good......Page 126
7 Vietnam......Page 133
8 Ethnicity in the Philippines......Page 161
9 Ethnicity and the politics of ethnic classification in Thailand......Page 182
10 Myanmar Burma......Page 199
11 Cambodia......Page 219
12 Laos minorities......Page 235
Index......Page 250
