The Establishment Of The Township And Reconstruction Of The Ethnic Identity

Chitu in southwest minority township is located in Nankang in September 2001, approval the provincial people’s government approved it to set up township, which is the only minority nationality township in Ganzhou. She nationality is living in Chitu restore their ethnic identify during 1984 to 1988. in the process how do the She nationality view their identify? After this,what happened to their life and what do the government do to the ethnic township? What is the effect of building Chitu She ethnic township? What is the impact of government’s support to nation polity? These questions are what need to discuss.Based on Chitu minority village, this paper adopts the research methods of literature analysis and field survey. Firstly, this paper discusses the process of ethnic identify and the building of ethnic township, and exam the situation of place surveied and the process of She identify in Gannan. Secondly this paper discusses the effects of government actions on ethnic building from three impacts, ethnic education and ethnic building, scooping characteristics and building She townships, and building ethnic villages, to study how the government to scoop ethnic culture and build ethnic characteristic villages. Besides, this paper exams ethnic elites’ effect on ethnic building and how to effect ethnic building with their powers also from three impacts, revising the Lan Genealogy, building the Lan Hall, and historical memories and ethnic building. In the end,this paper mainly discusses ethnic building based on government policy what is some views about government policy’s effects on local She nationality and She townships and some thinks to author’s survey in these places.This paper argues that the construction of the local minority ethnic identity is not lead by government but also effected by ethnic elites’ propaganda and introduction. Local economy has benefits from building ethnic township greatly, but the state government has to consider ethnic township’s development direction in the future, and what changes will happen to relations of all ethnics and ethnic identify based on nation policy when it makes related policy.