Thailand Lisu Social Development And Cultural Changes - Integrated Research And Case Studies

A person can not enter a same river twice.This is not because the rivers are flowing all the time,but aslo the person are changing and the society which consists of unique persons and it's colourful social culture are developing and transforming during the flow.In the history,because its livelihood and wars from outside, Lisu migrated frequently. They ran from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into the Yalongjiang and Lancangjiang areas.Climbeding up the Mountain Biluo Snow into the Nujiang areas, getting across the Mountain Gaoli,they went to the Myanmar, Northeast parts of Indian and Northern Thailand and formed a cross--border ethnic group which mainly distributes in China, Myanmar, Thailand and India.Because of the far distance from each other and the influence of the main ethnic group's culture where they live,during the social development Lisu society changed a lot.The dissertation uses the Mr.Guan Song Shuhua's the Zong-heng method,mainly combines the methods of historical literature and field study,taking Ban Lum village as an example to research Lisu's 40 years social and cutural transformation which includes Lisu traditinal social organization and its function developmenent and changes,economic development and changes,the developmen of education and its problems,the marriage custom's development and changes,the religion's development and changes,the language'changes,the Lisu-Tai and Tai government relashionship developmen and change. Of caurse, cultral transformation includs costume,diet and other changes.But because there is enough material available and the author's low ability,the dissertation gives up them. According to its structure,the dissertation is divied into three parts,that is,the preface, the body and the tag; According to its content, the dissertation body is divided into four parts,that is, the first is the first part. This part gaves a brief introduction on Lisu's historical background, migration reason, Thailand Lisu's coming and population distribution; The second,third and fourth chapters are the second part. This part explores Lisu'social transformation, including its social organization and its function transformation; Economy development and transformation; Education development and problems. The fifthe sixth, seventh and eighth chapters are the third part. From marriage customs, festival culture, religion belief and language four aspects, This part expatiates Lisu's cultural transformation. The ninth chapter is the last part which focus on relationship evolvement between Lisu people and Tai people and Tai government. As follows:The preface explains why the author chooses the subject and its significance, expatiates current studies of the scholars at home and abroad, research methods and give a brief introduction to field study, and innovations and shortage.The first chapter introduces the Lisu's name,origins, evolvement and development. Discusses why Lisu migrate, its population and distribution.Via cases analysis, the second chapter describes the differences between former social orgnization and its function and current social orgnizaion and its function, telling its system's evolution.The third chapter expounds Lisu's economy change and development. The article first introduces Lisu's traditional economy, then the Lisu traditinal economy in Northern Thailand, the economic change and development in Ban Lum village at last.The fourth chapter brifly introduces Lisu tradional education, such as famil education,society education and school education, then mainly focuses on school education's problem, that is,lots of students drop out from schools.The fifth chapter first describes Lisu's traditional marriage customs, then describes Tai Lisu marriage customs, describes Lisu marriage custom changes in Ban Lum, that is the enlargement of the marrigae range, the disappearing of court song,increase of marriage age, the upswing of betrothal gift and the curtailment of compulsory labouring,the changes of request and criterion for choosing a spouse.The sixth chapter discribes Lisu's traditional festivals in China and Tailand, then discusses Tailand Lisu Spring festival transformations of its cultural meanings, extension and functions.The seventh chapter introduces Lisu's traditional religion, the traditional religion behavior and Christianity development conditions in Ban Lum village to show Lisu religion's evolution.The eighth chapter makes a sound camparison between Thailand Lisu and China Lisu to introduce language changes.The ninth chapter first introduces relationships between Thai and Lisu in history,that is, deceived and being deceived, mistrust; then the article introduces their current relationships, that is, with the social and economic development the benefit conflict between the state and villagers emerges. Villagers sometimes fight with government officials, but because government has done much work for villagers before the conflict quiets down soon. This aslo shows that the relationship between villagers and Thai government has eased up. And the dissertation introduces Lisu's identity and national identity.