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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/art-keeping-appropriate-distan
 ce-practicing-ethnicity-dan-margins-through-time/
SUMMARY:The Art of Keeping Appropriate Distance: Practicing "Ethnicity" of 
 the "Dan"(蜑) on the Margins Through Time
DESCRIPTION:\n	Huang Xiangchun (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Xiam
 en University\; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2018-19)\n	Chair/discussant: Rober
 t Weller (Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Boston University)\n\n	
 Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	What does 
 “ethnicity” mean in late imperial and modern China? How is it practice
 d in local society and to what extent does it shape local society and cult
 ure? This talk reflects on and responds to these questions by interpreting
  stories of the “Dan” (蜑\, boat people) from Fuzhou. In the local so
 ciety and culture of Fuzhou and its water-land ecosystems\, the Dan were a
  historical “ethnic group” and a “base and marginalized community.
 ” But “Dan” also represented a lifestyle\, a field of social action\
 , a status discourse\, and a cultural identifying label. The Dan played a 
 number of roles that broke classificatory boundaries\, including fishing
  people\, taxpayer\, pirate\, smuggler\, tenant\, stowaway\, as well as pe
 ople of base status (贱民) and barbarian. These roles reflect the fact t
 hat the existence of the Dan as an “ethnic” group was a product of del
 iberate strategy: keeping “appropriate distance” from the state and 
 “decent” society. In this sense\, the Dan occupied a marginal position
  between “not being governed” and “being governed”. The example of
  the Dan demonstrates that local society and culture and “ethnicity” w
 ere\, to a large extent\, a social-cultural consequence of this historical
  process of institutionalization. Moreover\, the internalization (or conve
 ntionalization) of institutional languages and the appropriation of local 
 symbols (gods and rituals) explains how local Chinese communities could ma
 intain their diversity while sharing in “Chineseness”.
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