解构中国少数民族:去东方学化还是再东方学化

自20世纪90年代以来,中国的民族识别或中国政府对其境内少数民族的政治构建遭到了来自西方的中国研究专家们的解构。在这种后殖民批评式的拆解中,中国的少数民族承认和包容政治被当做了对于少数民族的歧视和排斥政治,中国的世居少数民族问题被搅混成了侨散居少数族裔问题,中国的民族识别问题被当做了内殖民主义或内东方学问题。然而,刀诡的是,尽管在其笔下中国少数民族被中国政府当做了内部的东方,但是,值得注意的是,这种把当代中国少数民族承认政治东方专制主义化的取向,在中国学界不仅没有激起有力的批判性回应,反倒生成了许多诸如对少数民族去政治化、民族共治、唯个体公民权利论之类西方学畅想!

Deconstructing the Ethnic Minorities of China:De-orientalism or Re-orientalism

Since 1990s, the ethnic identity in China or China's policies on ethnic minorities at home have been deconstructed by the western scholars in the field of China issues. In such post-colonial deconstruction, China's policies that admit and accommodate ethnic minorities have been misinterpreted as discrimination and exclusion; the issue of China's indigenous ethnic minorities have been confused with the diaspora ethnic minorities; and the ethnic identity in China have been taken as inner colonization or inner...