By Jianxiong Ma
ISBN-10: 0415505585
ISBN-13: 9780415505581
The Lahu, with a inhabitants of round 470,000, inhabit the mountainous state in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a protracted historical past of resistance to the chinese language Han majority, the Lahu are presently dealing with a significant cave in in their conventional social procedure, with the top suicide expense on the planet, huge scale human trafficking in their girls, alcoholism and poverty. This publication, in accordance with huge unique examine together with long term anthropological learn one of the Lahu, presents an outline of the conventional lifestyle of the Lahu, their social method, tradition and ideology, and discusses the ways that those are altering. It indicates how the Lahu are specially susceptible as a result of their loss of political representatives and a nation expert elite which could interact with, and be a part of, the govt administrative process. The Lahu are one of the quite small ethnic minorities in China – total the publication offers an instance of ways the chinese language govt techniques those particularly small ethnic minorities.
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