Ralph A. Litzinger is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

“Other Chinas is a brilliantly executed study of the politics of ethnography in contemporary China. Litzinger engages theories of power, identity, and modernity in a nuanced and sensitive manner, with strategically deployed ethnographic examples on everything from the writing of minority histories, to the longing for ethnic places, to the staging of minority difference. Chinese socialism, and its aftermath, may never look the same.”-Ted Swedenburg, co-editor of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity “Other Chinas is a theoretically rich and multi-sited ethnography that challenges the dominant notion that the Han subject is always the face of Chinese nationalism. Litzinger demonstrates, with brilliant liveliness, how the paths to and from indigenism have long been at the center of the cultural politics of the socialist state. This book should be read by anyone interested in debates about subaltern agency, the writing of national histories, and the critique of post-socialist modernities.”-Bruce Grant, Swarthmore College “A masterful work of ethnography and history that sheds new light on politico-intellectual elites and teaches us a great deal about how to think minority politics in any society. Litzinger elegantly reveals the imbrication of Yao identities with Chinese state practice and the writing of selves that takes place even at the margins.”-Louisa Schein, author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Writing the Margins: An Introduction 2. Inciting the Past 3. Moral Geographies of Place 4. Remembering Revolution 5. The State and its Ritual Potencies 6. Post-socialist Belonging Epilogue: Remapping the Margins Bibliography

Ralph A. Litzinger is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

“Other Chinas is a brilliantly executed study of the politics of ethnography in contemporary China. Litzinger engages theories of power, identity, and modernity in a nuanced and sensitive manner, with strategically deployed ethnographic examples on everything from the writing of minority histories, to the longing for ethnic places, to the staging of minority difference. Chinese socialism, and its aftermath, may never look the same.”-Ted Swedenburg, co-editor of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity “Other Chinas is a theoretically rich and multi-sited ethnography that challenges the dominant notion that the Han subject is always the face of Chinese nationalism. Litzinger demonstrates, with brilliant liveliness, how the paths to and from indigenism have long been at the center of the cultural politics of the socialist state. This book should be read by anyone interested in debates about subaltern agency, the writing of national histories, and the critique of post-socialist modernities.”-Bruce Grant, Swarthmore College “A masterful work of ethnography and history that sheds new light on politico-intellectual elites and teaches us a great deal about how to think minority politics in any society. Litzinger elegantly reveals the imbrication of Yao identities with Chinese state practice and the writing of selves that takes place even at the margins.”-Louisa Schein, author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Writing the Margins: An Introduction 2. Inciting the Past 3. Moral Geographies of Place 4. Remembering Revolution 5. The State and its Ritual Potencies 6. Post-socialist Belonging Epilogue: Remapping the Margins Bibliography

Ralph A. Litzinger is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

“Other Chinas is a brilliantly executed study of the politics of ethnography in contemporary China. Litzinger engages theories of power, identity, and modernity in a nuanced and sensitive manner, with strategically deployed ethnographic examples on everything from the writing of minority histories, to the longing for ethnic places, to the staging of minority difference. Chinese socialism, and its aftermath, may never look the same.”-Ted Swedenburg, co-editor of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity “Other Chinas is a theoretically rich and multi-sited ethnography that challenges the dominant notion that the Han subject is always the face of Chinese nationalism. Litzinger demonstrates, with brilliant liveliness, how the paths to and from indigenism have long been at the center of the cultural politics of the socialist state. This book should be read by anyone interested in debates about subaltern agency, the writing of national histories, and the critique of post-socialist modernities.”-Bruce Grant, Swarthmore College “A masterful work of ethnography and history that sheds new light on politico-intellectual elites and teaches us a great deal about how to think minority politics in any society. Litzinger elegantly reveals the imbrication of Yao identities with Chinese state practice and the writing of selves that takes place even at the margins.”-Louisa Schein, author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Writing the Margins: An Introduction 2. Inciting the Past 3. Moral Geographies of Place 4. Remembering Revolution 5. The State and its Ritual Potencies 6. Post-socialist Belonging Epilogue: Remapping the Margins Bibliography