This book provides a comprehensive overview of China's 55 officially recognized ethnic minority groups. It covers their history, culture, social structure, minority rights issues, and the challenges they face in the context of China's modernization. It also discusses linguistic diversity, traditions, and how these groups interact with the Han majority and central government policies.
This book will give readers a glimpse of one of the main cultural forms among Chinese minorities. It not only introduces the dances of each minority group, including characteristic movements, steps, patterns, rhythms and musical accompaniment, but also gives the historical and legendary background for the dances. The selection of twenty-five minority groups' folk dances represents the fruition …