Repositioning Ethnicity in the Process of State Building： The Power of Culture and the Poverty of Interpretation  

作　　者：Naran Bilik 

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2009年第3期94-118,共25页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

摘　　要：In this article, the author tries to analyze the incongruity between ethnicity and its theorization in China and explore the tension between the mainstream discourse of homogenization-cure-nationalism and the minority linguisticcultural ＂heteroglossia, ＂ as is typified by the conceptual and practical difficulty in translating Minzu[ I ] as well as the political revival and pragmatic use of traditional culture. Drawing on Walker Connor＇s study of the national question in Marxist-Leninist theory and strategy, the author argues that the old formula of ＂national in form, socialist in content,＂ as has been applied in China, lacks a Thirdness-based ＂indexical embodiment＂ dimension, a defect that creates a situation ＂national in form, ethnic in content,＂ and leads to political ambiguities and identity conflicts.

关 键 词：ETHNICITY language CULTURE indexical embodiment NATIONALISM 

分 类 号：F124.7[经济管理—世界经济] G12[文化科学]