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Southwestern China's nationalities Combined archive of Southwestern China's nationalities (field photographs) (Academia Sinica)Type Collection Collection Identifier c0503 Alternative Title
Description Between 1929 and 1943, early Institute of History and Philology (Academia Sinica) researchers carried out planned, scientific, and inter-provincial investigative field work in southern, southwestern, and northeastern China on a historically unprecedented scale. They collected and left for future scholars a very rich store of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to modern China’s national minorities. Their reports on these national minorities are important, valuable, and informative for research into the Chinese nationalism and the historical and anthropological research into the national minorities of the time. The objectives of this plan: 1. The establishment of a materials archive for field photographs and national minority documents 2. The construction of Website Village Fortress"村寨網—Reconstruction of the national minorities on China’s borderlands” website, which will share research results with the general public and function as a bridge for exchange between related academic field 3. The establishment of a research materials archive for China’s southwestern national minorities, which will effectively manage and propagate valuable use of digitalized archived materials This special features of this plan are its interdisciplinary (anthropological, historical, and literary) combination of methods and visions and its broad use of artifacts, documents (investigative reports, local gazetteer travel accounts, and even novels and plays), and visual images in presenting and expounding upon the elements of “people and locality” (people and their relationship with their environmental ecology), “people and people” (the various social identities and distinctions between peoples), and “people and heaven” (the life customs and religious beliefs of humankind) associated with these archived items. This plan also presents a pluralistic discussion of Chinese ethnic studies and probes into the historical processes of ethnic formation in China. " Size
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Temporal Coverage 1929/1943 Dates Collection Accumulated 1929/1943 Dates Items Created
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Owner Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Is Located At Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Is Accessed Via link: http://140.109.18.243/race_public/index.htm Sub-Collection
Super-Collection Anthropology Catalogueor Index
Associated collection Ethnological Photos (National Taiwan University) Associated Publication
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