The Hmong of Southeast Asia and South China
Author: John Charles Watkins
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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A History of the Hmong
Author: Thomas S. Vang
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1435709322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first completely up-to-date Hmong history book ever written by a member of the Hmong people. It describes the earliest civilizations of the Hmong and Miao in China, and why some of the Hmong migrated into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century, particularly to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand; and how the Hmong of Laos were involved with the Lao civil war, especially the secret war from 1962 to 1975 that caused almost a hundred thousand Hmong to flee to Thailand and Western countries as political refugees after the Communists takeover. This book includes the forcible repatriation of the Lao-Hmong asylum seekers at Nam Khao refugee camp in Thailand back to Laos in late 2009 and the arrest and discharge of former General Vang Pao by the U.S. authorities. "[It] is full of fascinating materials [and] a wonderful book. Congratulations," commented by Dr Nicholas C. T. Tapp, Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.
The Hmong of China
Author: Nicholas Tapp
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9004489444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first ethnography of the Hmong in China is based on Nicholas Tapp’s extensive fieldwork in a Hmong village in Sichuan. Basing his analysis on the concepts of context and agency, Tapp discusses the “paradoxical ambivalence at the heart of Hmong culture.” A paradox arises in the historical and ethnographic construction of the identity of the Hmong by conscious contrast with, and in opposition to, a majority Han Chinese identity at the same time that large parts of Hmong culture are shared with the Chinese and may be the results of historical processes of adoption, absorption, mimesis, or emulation. Tapp examines the Hmong rituals of shamanism, ancestral respect, and death and provides details on livelihood, kinship, local organization, and intellectual culture. The book is enhanced with thorough accounts of ceremonies, rituals, and folktales, with translations of Hmong songs and stories. This publication has also been published in paperback (no longer available).
The Hmong of Southeast Asia
Author: Sandra Millett
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780822548522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the traditions of the Hmong people; how they live on a daily basis; and how they are working to preserve their heritage despite technology.
Sovereignty and Rebellion
Author: Nicholas Tapp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe White Hmong are an ethnic minority in northern Thailand, Laos, southern China and Burma.
Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
Author: Mai Na M. Lee
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2015-06-16
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 0299298841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthoritative and original, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom is among the first works of its kind, exploring the influence that French colonialism and Hmong leadership had on the Hmong people's political and social aspirations.
Hmong/Miao in Asia
Author: Nicholas Tapp
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the most comprehensive collection of research on Hmong culture and life in Asia yet to be published. It compliments the abundant material on the Hmong diaspora by focusing instead on the Hmong in their Asian homeland. The contributors are scholars from a number of different backgrounds with a deep knowledge of Hmong society and culture, including several Hmong. The first group of essays addresses the fabric of Hmong culture by considering issues of history, language, and identity among the Hmong/Miao from Laos to China. The second part introduces the challenges faced by the Hmong in contemporary Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Nicholas Tapp is senior fellow in anthropology at the Australian National University. Jean Michaud is associate researcher in Asian studies at University de Montreal. Christian Culas is a member of the National Center for Scientific Research in Marseille. Gary Yia Lee is senior ethnic liaison officer for New South Wales.
Hmong, History of a People
Author: Keith Quincy
Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost Hmong today live in China, Laos, northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma, and are all descendants (it is speculated) of Hmong who originally migrated from central Siberia.
Where China Meets Southeast Asia
Author: Grant Evans
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9814517356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s. There have been radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos. Each chapter provides a close-up survey of a particular area and problem, but cumulatively they provide an invaluable general picture of social and cultural change in the border regions where China meets Southeast Asia.
Frontier Livelihoods
Author: Sarah Turner
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 029580596X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by Hmong communities in Vietnam and in China’s Yunnan Province. It covers the reactions to state modernization projects among this ethnic group in two separate national jurisdictions and contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border relationships between ethnic minorities in the borderlands of China and its neighbors and in Southeast Asia more broadly.
