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Fleeing one homeland and adopting another : the construction of state identity in a northern Thailand village
Cong tao li dao gui fu. English
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"This book focuses on the Han Chinese and cross-border ethic tribes (mainly Lahu people) of Yunnan origin now living in Meilianghe Village (Ban Huay Nam Khun) in northern Thailand. It is an ethnogr...
"This book focuses on the Han Chinese and cross-border ethic tribes (mainly Lahu people) of Yunnan origin now living in Meilianghe Village (Ban Huay Nam Khun) in northern Thailand. It is an ethnographic study of how this special group of people left Yunnan Province in Southwest China, migrated to northern Thailand via Myanmar, and underwent various survival predicaments before submitting to Thailand as its citizens. By analyzing multiple factors such as political events, state institutions, economic systems, and cultural influences related to these people's escaping from one country and submitting to another country, this book explores the political and cultural dimensions required for the construction of state identity"--
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- Creator
- Zhang Jinpeng ; translated by Zhang Jiangcheng
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- English
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- New York : Peter Lang, [2023]
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- l, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781433177200, 143317720X, 9781433178337, 9781433178344, 9781433178351, 9781433178337
- OCLC
- on1378729790
- Includes bibliographical references.
- In English, translated from the original Chinese.
- 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
Subjects
- Chiang Rai (Thailand : Province) -- Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic groups -- Thailand -- Ban Huay Nam Khun (Chiang Rai).
- Ban Huay Nam Khun (Chiang Rai, Thailand) -- Ethnic relations.
- Chinese -- Thailand -- Ban Huay Nam Khun (Chiang Rai) -- Social conditions.
- Lahu (Asian people) -- Thailand -- Ban Huay Nam Khun (Chiang Rai) -- Social conditions.
- Ban Huay Nam Khun (Chiang Rai, Thailand) -- Emigration and immigration.
- Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Emigration and immigration.
- Chinese -- Ethnic identity.