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Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
Häftad, 2019
615 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of …
Greening East Asia
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
Av Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1926 kr
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A timely collection examining a diverse region’s environmental shiftsEast Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, making …
Greening East Asia
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
Av Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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A timely collection examining a diverse region’s environmental shiftsEast Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, making …
Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
Av Jarmila Ptáčková, Stevan Harrell
Inbunden, 2020
1926 kr
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Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan PlateauOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended …
Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
Av Jarmila Ptáčková, Stevan Harrell
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan PlateauOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended …
Pure and True
The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims
Av David R. Stroup, Stevan Harrell
Inbunden, 2022
1870 kr
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What are the boundaries of Hui identity?The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party’s great success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but …
Pure and True
The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims
Av David R. Stroup, Stevan Harrell
Häftad, 2022
535 kr
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What are the boundaries of Hui identity?The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party’s great success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but …
Ecological History of Modern China
Inbunden, 2023
1819 kr
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How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilienceIs environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of …
Ecological History of Modern China
Häftad, 2023
551 kr
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How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilienceIs environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of …
Satirical Tibet
The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
Av Timothy Thurston, Stevan Harrell
Inbunden, 2025
1767 kr
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What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and cultural preservation, comedians, hip-hop artists, and other creatives …
Satirical Tibet
The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
Av Timothy Thurston, Stevan Harrell
Häftad, 2025
463 kr
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What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail?Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and cultural preservation, comedians, hip-hop artists, and other creatives …
Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China
Buyi and the Paradox of Difference
Av Yu Luo, Stevan Harrell
Inbunden, 2025
1870 kr
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An ethnic group at the crossroads of uniqueness and conformity in southwestern ChinaThe Buyi people face a dilemma. On the one hand, they work hard to maintain their culture—both out of pride and to attract visitors to their region. On the other, they want to maintain the government and popular …
Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China
Buyi and the Paradox of Difference
Av Yu Luo, Stevan Harrell
Häftad, 2025
463 kr
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An ethnic group at the crossroads of uniqueness and conformity in southwestern ChinaThe Buyi people face a dilemma. On the one hand, they work hard to maintain their culture—both out of pride and to attract visitors to their region. On the other, they want to maintain the government and popular …
Painting Thangkas on the Tibetan Plateau
Buddhist Art Making in Transition
Häftad, 2025
610 kr
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Artists navigate faith, commerce, and gender as thangkas thrive beyond traditionXue Ming offers a rare and deeply researched look into the lives of Rebgong thangka painters, whose sacred art is at once devotional, commercial, and political. Rebgong, a major center of thangka painting since at least …
Settling Xinjiang
China's Colonial Project and Uyghur Daily Life
Av Timothy A. Grose, Stevan Harrell
Häftad, 2027
535 kr
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Where everyday governance transforms hospitality, dress, and time into instruments of colonial ruleMass detention camps and forced labor in Xinjiang have garnered global attention. Settling Xinjiang reveals a broader—and less visible—system of control shaping everyday life in the Uyghur homeland. …
Decarbonizing East Asia
Challenges of Green Energy Transitions
Av Joanna I. Lewis, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1847 kr
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A comparative analysis of east Asia's contested experiments in decarbonizationThe global fight against climate change cannot be understood without taking East Asia into account. Home to the world’s largest share of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, the region also leads in investment …
Decarbonizing East Asia
Challenges of Green Energy Transitions
Av Joanna I. Lewis, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
535 kr
Kommande
A comparative analysis of east Asia's contested experiments in decarbonizationThe global fight against climate change cannot be understood without taking East Asia into account. Home to the world’s largest share of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, the region also leads in investment …
Ploughshare Village
Culture and Context in Taiwan
E-bok, 2014
606 kr
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This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also …
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
Häftad, 1996
535 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, …
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Häftad, 2002
577 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese …
Fieldwork Connections
The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
Av Ayi Bamo, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
535 kr
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Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village …
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
Av Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2159 kr
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The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close …
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
Av Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
551 kr
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The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close …
Ploughshare Village
Culture and Context in Taiwan
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also …
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Inbunden, 2015
1700 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese …
Transforming Patriarchy
Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
Av Gonçalo D. Santos, Stevan Harrell
Inbunden, 2016
1819 kr
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Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held …
Transforming Patriarchy
Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
Av Stevan Harrell, Goncalo Santos
E-bok, 2016
625 kr
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Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held …
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
Av G. William Skinner, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2159 kr
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In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to …
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
Av G. William Skinner, Stevan Harrell m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
443 kr
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In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to …
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
Av G. William Skinner, William Lavely m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
611 kr
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In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to …