@article{9809dc735d644b6d9d343cc428efab08,
title = "Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, Yi, and Han in Southwest China",
abstract = "How do non-Han populations in China navigate the paradoxical expectations to become “proper” Chinese citizens, like the majority Han, while retaining pride in cultural practices and traditions that mark their differences? This article examines how Mosuo (otherwise known as Na) people in Southwest China have constructed the moral legitimacy of their ethnic traditions and identity through redirecting the Orientalizing gaze toward their Yi neighbors, another ethnic minority in the region. This argument, which displaces the analytical focus from the majority Han and the political state in analyses of the maintenance of ethnic boundaries, delineates how prejudice against a third-party ethnic other can serve as an important pathway for establishing cultural citizenship in the People{\textquoteright}s Republic of China. The article ends with a discussion of the methodological significance of this lens for understanding interethnic relationships, while recognizing the challenges of examining ethnic prejudice as a site for negotiating identity and citizenship.",
author = "Sum, {Chun Yi} and Tami Blumenfield and Shenk, {Mary K.} and Mattison, {Siobh{\'a}n M.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Field research was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF-BCS 1461514). Opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Funding Information: We thank the Center for Studies of Borderland Ethnic Groups in the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University for their assistance with this project. We also thank Mosuo friends and interviewees in Yongning for sharing their stories and experiences with us. Previous drafts of this manuscript were workshopped at the Summer Institute for Chinese Studies at University of Pittsburgh and the Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-In-Progress Seminar at University of Rochester. Special thanks to Kimberly Arkin, Stevan Harrell, and Gerald Roche for their careful reading and thoughtful comments. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Field research was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF-BCS 1461514). Opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2021.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
doi = "10.1177/00977004211017814",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "48",
pages = "568--592",
journal = "Modern China",
issn = "0097-7004",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "3",
}