Research On The Problem Of Hanization Of Yi Nationality In The Frontier Region Of Yunnan During The Period Of The Republican China

This study focus on the communication and integration between Bailang XiangTang people and the Han people to explore the cultural change and identity change in the background of the management of the border area and Hanization during the period of the Republican China. The main method of this research is the materialist dialectical thought of history and the ethnic identity of anthropology.In the traditional academic research, Hanization usually be studied as an universal cultural phenomenon, scholars ignored the uniqueness between different historical periods in ethnic minority. During the period of the Republican China., the Hanization of ethnic minority was very different, it was not just a kind of change in culture, but a kind of change in identity, the long-term existence of national inequality and discrimination in the history urged ethnic minority to integrated into the dominant culture, and the background of frontier crisis force nation to enhanced the attention and governance to the frontier and implemented a series of national assimilation policy, all this pushed and influenced the process of Hanization.Hanization is a gradual historical process, the Hanization of the border Luoyi is an example under the national construction process of the cultural and the identity change of the minority nationalities in the border areas of Yunnan, In this way, this study has its own significance.