IN-EAST News
17.06.2014 - 00:00
Lecture of Da WU: Three Tongues and Two Identities: A case study on Ersu ethnic identities in Sichuan, China
Tue, June 17, 2014, 18.15–19.30 h
The Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr and the DFG Research Training Group 1613 Risk and East Asia invite you to a lecture given by Da WU:
Three Tongues and Two Identities: A case study on Ersu ethnic identities in Sichuan, China
Lecturer: Da Wu
MA and Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Director of Center for the Study of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity, Minzu University of China
Guest Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
Chair and Welcoming: Prof. Flemming Christiansen
(IN-EAST; Speaker, Research Training Group GRK 1613 Risk and East Asia)
Discussant: Dr. Anja D. Senz
(IN-EAST; Managing Director of the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr)
Date:Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 18.15–19.30
Venue: LC 026
In the 1980s two ethnic identities arose among the Ersu people who speak three tongues. Some of them recognized themselves as Tibetan nationality while others tried to ask for being recognized as a distinct minzu (ethnic group or nationality). There were a number of factors within the dispute including political and economic ones. Among these factors, the writing system used by the Ersu people played an essential role.
Professor Da WU is the author of Ethnicity and the Construction of Ethnic Identities: An ethnographic study of the Ersu of Sichuan (Beijing: Minzu Press, 2010), Social Change and Cultural Identities: A case study of ethnic Yi in Liangshan, Sichuan Province (Shanghai: Xuelin Press, 2008). He has published more than 50 papers in Chinese and English.