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The “Dai” ethnic group is officially recognized in China; however, internationally these peoples are often designated as “Tai” or “Thai,” especially in Southeast Asia. In this essay, I use “Dai” instead of “Tai” or “Thai” according to official Chinese regulation.
Aug 5, 2016 · An ethnic minority, the Dai people were part of an ancient culture that inhabited what is now China’s Yunnan province until political chaos and wars forced them to disperse south. Now spread...
The main Dai groups in China are Dai Lu, Dai Nua and Dai Mao. According to Travel China Guide, Dai is the name of the nationality, which means “freedom”.7 Tai or Shan is now used as a generic word to cover the whole race spelled by French as Thay. The name is said to mean “The Free” or “Free Men.”8 Why do they call themselves “Tai ...
Jul 2, 2024 · Chinese Dai dance is a dance art form with distinct ethnic characteristics, profound artistic connotations, multiple social functions, rich types, and innovative inheritance characteristics. This article takes Chinese Dai dance as the starting point and analyzes the development and innovation of
Admitting Sun’s debt to Western thought, the article finds its deeper structure to contain component parts of the Chinese tradition and painful struggles to reconcile modernization with what Sun perceived to be the essence of Chinese culture.
The Dai people (Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; Tai Lü: ᨴᩱ/ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿ; Lao: ໄຕ; Thai: ไท; Shan: တႆး, [tai˥˩]; Tai Nuea: ᥖᥭᥰ, [tai˥]; Chinese: 傣 族; pinyin: Dǎizú) are several Tai -speaking ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo ...
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This paper uses ethnographic data from fieldwork in Hangzhou to illuminate the contrasting attitudes to the Chinese classics, and particularly the Yi Jing, found among fortune-tellers on the one hand and National Studies (guoxue) activists on the other.
