Research on the Ethnic Relationship and Ethnic Culture Changes in the West of the Tibetan–Yi Corridor

Gao Zhiying holds a Ph.D. in history from Yunnan University, where she serves as Distinguished Professor. Professor Gao completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Social Anthropology at Peking University. Her research focuses on ethnic history, historical anthropology of culture and religion, cultural ethnosociology, and religious anthropology in the westernmost section of the "Tibetan-Yi Corridor" in southwest China and Southeast Asia. She is the author of a number of influential monographs.

List of Figures – List of Tables – Introduction – Ethnic Groups in the Western Area of the Tibetan-Yi Corridor after Battles among Three Parties in the Tang Dynasty – Eight Southern Tribes in Lijianglu after Yuan Soldiers Crossed Jinsha River using Animal Bladders as a Floatation Device – The Rise of the Mu Clan during the Ming Dynasty and Ethnic Groups in the Western Area of the Tibetan-Yi Corridor – Ethnic Groups on the Western Edge of the Tibetan-Yi Corridor against the Decline of the Local Chieftains of the Mu Clan in the Qing Dynasty – The Ethnic Groups along the Tibetan-Yi Corridor during the Crisis in the Period of the Republic of China – Ethnic Relations and Changes in Ethnic Culture – Bibliography.