By exploring the popular concepts of ethnic identity in China, Portraits of Obremitivizu presents the first comprehensive analysis of Han's views on minorities. By employing OportraitsO for those ethnic groups that are clearly different, Susan Bloom explains how the majority of Han sees other ethnic groups.

Political, scientific and popular concerns of Han's classification at the height of modernization, civilization and other ethnic groups are being tracked as an oppremitiv. The book puts questions of identity, change, and self in the context of a complex nation-state where ethnicity is largely politicized and part of the official language of national harmony, unity and nation-building in the twentieth century.

Providing a broad cultural and political context for her careful discussion of identity, Susan Blumos' book will be an invaluable guide to those working in China's studies, anthropology and ethnic studies.

I want that book.