Storied Answers to Questions about Interethnic Marriage in Multiethnic Qinghai Province, PR of China

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2022.0001

Monika Kołodziej

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Abstract

Abstract:The article discusses the use of stories as answers to direct questions. The author encountered this pattern while conducting fieldwork tracing identity contexts among young Chinese Muslims of the Hui ethnicity in the city of Xining, a cultural crossroads in Qinghai Province in northwest China, between 2016 and 2018. Regardless of a respondent’s ethnicity and gender, respondents shared the same pattern of sharing stories from the lives of unnamed friends and relatives. This pattern appeared predominantly when asking about interethnic relations and personal views on interethnic marriage and can thus be understood as a high-context cultural strategy for politely and indirectly expressing personal attitudes. The article analyzes this pattern in terms of Chinese culture and the national image of harmonious coexistence in a multiethnic society.

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中国多民族青海省跨民族婚姻问题的故事答案

摘要:本文讨论了用故事来回答直接问题。作者在2016年至2018年期间，在中国西北部青海省的文化十字路口西宁市进行实地调查，追踪中国回族年轻穆斯林的身份背景时，遇到了这种模式。无论受访者的种族和性别如何，受访者都有相同的分享无名朋友和亲戚生活故事的模式。这种模式主要出现在询问种族间关系和个人对种族间婚姻的看法时，因此可以理解为礼貌和间接表达个人态度的高语境文化策略。本文从中国文化和多民族社会和谐共处的国家形象的角度来分析这一模式。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.