The Hmong people have emigrated from China to Southeast Asia, and from there, since the end of the Vietnam wars, to France, America, and other Western countries. Examining a Hmong opium-growing village in northern Thailand, Tapp here explores how these people have managed to maintain a strong ethnic integrity despite centuries of oppression by more powerful majority populations.

Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs)

History

Tapp, Nicholas

Asia

Oxford University Press

This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.
Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifestyle, balancing traditional lifeways and practices with modern, evolving customs.
The book is unique in dealing, not only with the Hmong in the United States, Australia, and other Western nations, but also with their traditional and changing lives in their Asian homelands of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This broad international perspective allows readers to look at the Hmong through the complex interplay of the many social, historical, economic, and cultural influences they have been exposed to in their worldwide migration, and at how they manage to maintain their many traditions across national boundaries and great distances.
 • A chronology from the earliest history of the Hmong to the present day
• Numerous photographs depicting Hmong culture and artifacts
• Glossaries of English, Hmong, Latin, and Chinese terms

Culture and Customs of the Hmong (Culture and Customs of Asia)

Lee, Gary Yia

Greenwood

This is a work of ethnographic reflection on Hmong society, history and culture, dealing with questions of the self and the notion that a romantic self inspired the ethos of hedonism associated with the consumer economy. A Hmong identity is shown to have been historically constructed through the works of colonial missionaries, linguists, and anthropologists. Yet Hmong voices have also been powerful in this process. Based on recent fieldwork in Asia and overseas, the Hmong diaspora is examined. The modern Hmong self is presented as a prospective one, constructed in diaspora and through the use of the internet and other modes of modern communication in a movement towards a virtual future which, despite the dissonance of voices appealing to an ideal unity, is one still rich with potentiality.

The Impossibility of Self: An Essay on the Hmong Diaspora (6) (Comparative Anthropological Studies in Society, Cosmology and Politics)

LIT Verlag

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