ETHNIC MINORITIES IN CHINA
Professor Nicholas Tapp
Tuesday, May 6th, 7:00 p.m.
VENUE: InterfaceFLOR Room 201 (Second floor), Raffles City, 268 Central Tibet (Xizang) Road - in the office tower to the rear of the shopping mall with the entrance from Yunnan Road (between Hankou and Fuzhou Roads). Tel: 6340 3868
China’s ethnic minorities are currently much in the news, but many of the smaller minorities remain unknown outside China. This talk provides a general introduction to the history and implementation of ethnic policy in China and an account of the huge ethnic diversity there is within China. It compares policy with practice and outlines some of the main issues confronting minority populations in China today.
Nicholas Tapp has been studying China’s ethnic minorities for 20 years. He is a specialist in the Hmong (Miao) of China and Thailand, and has also studied this minority in Laos, Vietnam, and in the context of their overseas diaspora. Prof. Tapp holds an M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies). His publications include Rebellion and Sovereignty: the White Hmong of Northern Thailand (1989); and The Hmong of China: Context, Agency and the Imaginary (2002).
Nicholas Tapp is currently Professor of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, and has taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Edinburgh University, Scotland. He has long been associated with the Royal Asiatic Society in London and Hong Kong.
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ENTRANCE: 30 Rmb for members, 50 Rmb for guests