Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper 23x15cm, xv,350 pp Contains 14 papers. Includes: K. Yoshino "Culturalism, Racialism & Internationalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity"; E. Ohnuki-Tierney "A Conceptual Modle for the Historical Relationship Between the Self & the Internal & External Others: The Agrarian Japanese, the Ainu, and the Special-Status people"; L. Kendall "Who Speaks for the Korean Shamans When Shamans Speak of the Nation?"; C. Hae-joang "Constructing & Deconstructing 'Koreanness'"; Hsieh Shih-chung "On Three Definitions of Han Ren: Images of the Majority People in Taiwan"; D.C. Gladney "Clashed Civilizations? Muslim & Chinese Identities in the PRC"; Shamsul A.B. "Bureaucratic Management of Identity in Modern State: 'Malayness' in Postwar Malaysia"; A. Milner "Ideological Work in Constructing the Malay Majority"; J.D. Kelly "Aspiring to Minority & Other Tactics Against Violence"; M. Kaplan " When 8,870 - 850=1: Discourses Against Democracy in Fiji, Past & Present"; S. Deringil "From Ottoman to Turk: Self-Image & Social Engineering in Turkey"; K. Kirisci "Minority / Majority Discourse: The Case of the Kurds in Turkey"; R. Handler "Studying Mainstreams & Minorities in North America:Some Epistemological & Ethical Dilemmas"; J.Y. Okamuera "The Illusion of Paradise: Privileging Multiculturalism in Hawaii". Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. …