FY2002
Many ethnic groups live in China. They engage in presentation through a wide variety
of media, including ethnography, historical documents and other forms of writing,
and drawings as well as oral transmission. Although these presentations continue
at present, previous to now there has been no full-fledged research on the subject.
This joint research will concentrate on various ethnic groups in the southern
part of China, to focus on the wide variety of media, paying attention to both
Han and non-Han communities, as well as to marginalized ethnic groups, with the
aim of carrying out multifaceted comparative investigations that incorporate historical
as well as anthropological viewpoints.