The Establishment Of The Morden Academic Research On The Yi Nationality: 1928-49

The present dissertation is mainly to comb and summarize the academic history of the research on the Yi ethnic groups during the years from 1928 to 1949.The author chooses some scholars and groups with typical characteristic and prominent research products to probe into the doctrinal thoughts and academic methods of the research on the Yi ethnic groups, traces the academic origin and characteristic of viewpoint of the modern research on the Yi ethnic groups and presents a vivid view of the academic tradition.Besides the introduction, the present dissertation includes the following several parts:Chapter one"The research on the Yi ethnic groups under the background of modern nationalism":This chapter mainly probes into the social background of Yi studies. The great background of academic terms of nationalism which reflects the national will is the background of general Chinese characteristic of modern study. The research on the Yi ethnic groups is brought into the nationalism background. What the open vision brought are new visual angles and questions. The first study of the 20th century the research on the Yi ethnic groups is an important component of the study of social, historical and ethnic groups culture.Chapter two"Yang Chengzhi's research on the Yi ethnic groups: transition and deploitation":This chapter summarizes Yang's field investigation work of Yi ethnic groups. Yang's academic practices have milestone meanings in the academic history of the research on the Yi ethnic groups. It not only promoted the research on Chinese Yi ethnic groups from ancient times to modern times, but also discovers the way of Yi studies which is rich in academic construction. It is not a simple criticism attitude and standpoint, but a positive and active beginning of academic construction of the research on the Yi ethnic groups.Chapter three"The national behavior of the research on the Yi ethnic groups: education with propagandize and comfort":The author chooses the governmental border area implemental education group of Sichuan Province as a key research object among numerous academic groups of Yi district, in order to reach two purposes: one is to analyses the indagating standpoint and sense of the indagation group that on behalf of the government behaviors; the other one is to study the impetus of establishing the academic status of Yi studies which put by the implemental education group.Chapter four"Lin Yaohua's research on the Yi ethnic groups: learning and method":This chapter focuses on the process of Lin's academic research on the Yi race. From the viewpoint of studying academic history in Yi ethnic groups, on the one hand Lin earnestly practiced what one advocates in the observation of Liangshan Mountain and Yi race; on the other hand he penetrated the Yi society with the theory of equilibrium and the theory of structural function, so that he combined the research on the Yi ethnic groups with the modern academic vision, fixed on a new theory framework for the research on the Yi ethnic groups, and advanced Yi study to a new stage which both have academic theory of science and field practices. He has opened a new era of the research on the Yi ethnic groups.Chapter five"The research on the Yi ethnic groups of period of the war of resistance against Japan: ethnic groups and saving the nation from extinction":The war of resistance breaks out in an all-round way, China's ethnology and folklore showed much more vivid national and regional characteristics in the new ways and the forms of achievements with flourishing manner. The research on the Yi ethnic groups Yi study was also advanced to a new stage and had got the rich achievement, since the radical and sudden change of academia and political situation in that period. Yi's status had got the unprecedented emphasis and attention. At the period of resistant, the research on the Yi ethnic groups became a such important content of the development of theory and practice of many kinds of studies as ethnology, folklore, linguistic, etc..Chapter six"Ma Xueliang's study in Yi language: explaining the sutra with the vulgar tongue":As the pioneer of the study in Yi language, Ma is the first person, on the basis of master Yi language, did the overall indagation of Yi language systematically with the scientific method and academic study attitude in terms of linguistic. On the one hand Ma indagates Yi language with the modern linguistic theory and method; on the other hand he combines the research on Yi's sutras and the background of Yi's social culture."sutra and vulgar tongue elucidating each other"not only opens up a new way for the linguistic research on Yi language, but also establishes the academic specialization and conscientious consciousness of academic study of the research on the Yi ethnic groups on further step.Chapter seven"Native scholars'the research on the Yi ethnic groups: the visual angle of self-observation":This chapter studies the two native scholars---Ling Guangdian and Qu Muzangyao. On the one hand, they describe and present the real situation of their own nation with their works; on the other hand they use their reform practice to the external world to prove the developing process of Yi district and the demand of change of Yi race. Since their joining to the research course of advancing of the Yi ethnic groups, the real degree of the Han scholars'approaching to the research on the Yi ethnic groups can be judged. At the same time it also increased the liveliness and richness of the research on the Yi ethnic groups.Ending words:"problems and thinking":This part is mainly about the summary and comments to the study in Yi race in the first half of the 20th century. It emphasizes a vivid view that the research on the Yi ethnic groups develops in a neck-and-neck way with the development of the interrelated subjects as ethnology, folklore, ethnography, etc.. The research on the Yi ethnic groups and these subjects are also stick like a limpet, they promote mutually. The basic material and problems of the research history of Yi ethnic groups are clear general the main, and I have formed my own theory system and research methods. Half a century's academic accumulation of the research on the Yi ethnic groups clearly shows that the academic status of the research on the Yi ethnic groups has already been established.Appendix:The author pyovides some reference datum for better comprehension to the dissertation.