Etnosy i wierzenia religijne Chin Południowych w okresie transformacji na przykładzie prowincji Hunan
Ethnical and Religious Minorities of Southern China in the Time of Transformation. The Case of the Hunan Province

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the field study made in 2013 with the aim of initial screening of the situation of the ethnic groups of Southern China. The province of Hunan was visited with particular emphasison its capital Changsha, and the western part of the province, inhabited by ethnic minorities known as Xiangxi. The collected materials proves that globalization in China brought far-reaching changesnot only in the well-known regions of the wealthy coast, but also in remote, in accessible peripheralareas. With regards to the national minorities of the South of China, a new social phenomena appearedon such a large scale, that the signifi cant migration of national minorities to the coastal citieshas had important and far-reaching social consequences. The article contains a new typology that distinguishes two different types of Sinicization: voluntarily and extraneous.

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