Based on the fieldwork and historical data and Fucault s theory and from the anthropological perspective of looking at the center froma marginal position, the author studies this group living on water at three historical periods and their different names and relevant discourses and reinterprets the formation and nature of“discrimination against the Dans” as well as its implications to China s.

A Survey of the Efforts of the Party and Government to Solve the Issue of Danmin in Guangdong Province after the Founding of New China;