民族知识体系建构的民国源流

The Knowledge Construction of Minority Identification in Repulic of China

20世纪20年代中至40年代末,先后四代民族学者投身于少数民族研究,他们引入现代民族学研究手段,建立现代民族观念,在廓清民族称谓、界定民族关系、划定民族范围并探索民族自治制度方面做出了卓有成就的工作,为民族学中国化奠定了扎实的基础。新中国民族识别工作和少数民族区域自治政治理念的实践与民国时期的成就密不可分,其体现出的中国化自信可以在民国时期民族研究源流中得到解答。

From the mid of 1920＇s to the late of 1940＇s, four generations＇ ethnologists engaged in the minority groups＇ study that the modem ethnological methods and modem ethnicity idea were introduced to Chinese academia. Those ethnologists have had done productive works in clarifying the names of the minority groups , studying the relationship of ethnic groups, defining the range of ethic group and exploring the autonomy proposals in ethic group area. And those fruits achieved by scholars in Republic of China have laid a solid foundation for the ethnology study of People＇s Republic of China. The work of ethnic groups identification and practice of the Autonomy Area for minority groups continued from the study from Republic of China, and we should not understand the confident of localization unless putting these studies into the ethnological knowledge stream of Republic of China.