한양대학교 HK 트랜스내셔널인문학 사업단과 비교역사문화연구소는 오는 2015년 4월 30일(목) 오후 4시에 트랜스내셔널 인문학 콜로키움 "Unimagining the Past" 시리즈의 네 번째 강좌를 개최합니다.

HK 사업단의 일환으로 조직되는 트랜스내셔널인문학 콜로키움은 '근대/전근대', '서구/비서구', '민족'과 '국가' 등의 범주와 경계를 당연한 것으로 전제해온 기존 인문학/사회과학의 틀을 넘어 이들 범주를 문제화하는 맥락적인 시각을 소개하는데 목적을 두고 있습니다.

특히 "Unimagining the Past" 시리즈에서는 '과거'에 대한 지식과 담론이 민족, 종족, 인종 등 집합적 정체성의 (재)구성에서 어떠한 역할을 해왔으며, 동시에 이에 대한 지배적 이해가 다시 '과거'에 대한 지식과 담론을 어떻게 틀 지워왔는지를 비판적으로 살펴보고자 합니다.

4월 30일 강좌의 연사는 Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (U. of California Press, 2011)의 저자인 미국 Stanford University 사학과의 Thomas S. Mullaney 교수입니다.

강좌 제목은 "Unimagining Ethnicity in China: The Constitution of Minority Identity after the Ethnic Classification"이며, 토론자로는 이화여자대학교의 진세정 교수와 한양대학교의 김상현 교수가 참여합니다.

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제 목: Unimagining Ethnicity in China: The Constitution of Minority Identity after the Ethnic Classification

연 사: Thomas S. Mullaney (미국 Stanford University 사학과)

토 론: 진세정 (이화여자대학교 국제학부), 김상현 (한양대학교 비교역사문화연구소)

일 시: 2015년 4월 30일(목) 오후 4:00-6:00

장 소: 한양대학교 인문과학대학 205호

주 최: 한양대학교 HK 트랜스내셔널인문학 사업단 / 비교역사문화연구소

후 원: 한국연구재단

문 의: 02-2220-0545

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Unimagining Ethnicity in China: The Constitution of Minority Identity after the Ethnic Classification

Thomas S. Mullaney

Associate Professor of Chinese History

Stanford University

In China of the 1950s, ethnologists, linguists, and Communist authorities undertook a bureaucratic-cum-social scientific project known as the "Ethnic Classification." Here it was determined which among China's hundreds of ethnic minority communities would and would not be officially recognized by the state. Such was the subject of the speaker's first book, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (UC Press, 2011). What followed after the Classification was an equally if not more complex process which historians have yet to understand, let alone document.

Having merged nearly 400 minority communities into just 55 officially recognized minority categories, the Chinese state would now need to determine (or invent) the "standard" form of each: a standard or "representative" dialect, clothing style, dance-form, folklore, historical narrative, and much more. What ensued was a deeply politicized process in which state authorities, social scientists, and ethnic minority elites struggled to determine the hierarchies that would govern intra-ethnic (as compared to inter-ethnic) relations for which group - a profound challenge when we consider that single "groups" encompassed upwards of dozens of distinct subgroups or "branches."

For those ethnic subgroups whose spoken language and cultural forms were designated as "representative" of the overall minority, one could expect to hear it broadcast over radio and television, and encounter one's cultural practices in print, performance, film, pedagogy, museums exhibits, and more - to become the primus inter pares within one's ethnonational category. For those whose cultural forms were demarcated as "dialectal" or "variant," by contrast, their potential fate stood in stark contrast: a marked absence of state investment in their identity forms, and the specter of widespread, local-level cultural extinctions.

This talk will investigate the attempted standardization of minority identities in the post-Classification period, focusing upon one of the most illustrative post-Classification initiatives: the determination and creation of "standard minority dialects" for each of China's newly recognized groups, which would form the basis of minority language newspapers, broadcasting, and newly invented writing systems for non-literate communities.

* 한양대학교 캠퍼스 약도: http://www.hanyang.ac.kr/code_html/visual/vr/_hys_tour.htm