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The Tujia Language and Culture Website Welcome to the Tujia Language and Culture website! The Tujia people, with a total population of over 8 million, is the 6th largest ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China. They live in the provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou, as well as in Chongqing Municipality (formerly part of Sichuan Province). These areas lie in a region generally known as Central South China. This website contains pages introducing the Tujia culture and language, together with a photo archive. In addition the website gives access to a large archive of Tujia language material. Imperial Tiger Hunters, our popular-level introduction to the Tujia people has just been published (click on the image on the right for more details); our technical grammar The Tujia Language has also recently been published. Introduction to the Tujia People The Tujia Language Photo Archive This website is based on research carried out under the auspices of the College of Literature and Journalism, Jishou University, Xiangxi Tujia Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The authors worked on this project while they were based at the university from January 2002 to July 2003.

Imperial Tiger Hunters:An Introduction to the Tujia People of ChinaPhilip & Cecilia Brassett  Paperback, 154 pages (October 2005) Publisher: Antony Rowe Publishing Services ISBN: 1-905200-37-4     •Buy Imperial Tiger Hunters through Amazon UK     •View sample pages (JPEG, 200kb)  Hidden among the precipitous Wuling Mountains, just south of the Yangtze Three Gorges, live the Tujia, an ethnic group numbering eight million, with a long and fascinating history.  Descendants of the ancient Ba people, they lived an essentially independent existence for nearly two millenia. Under clans of feudal chieftains, one of which held sway for a staggering 800 years, they developed a highly distinctive culture - including crying before weddings, dancing at funerals and venerating the white tiger.  Then in the 1730s the Imperial Court in Peking finally gained the upper hand over them. The subsequent 300 years of assimilation by mainstream Chinese culture has taken its toll. The Tujia, pragmatic by nature, have always been able to adapt to new situations. Today, their desire to benefit from the educational and economic benefits of integration into modern China threatens the very survival of their traditional culture.