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Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
Häftad, 2019
614 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 …
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Häftad, 2002
590 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 …
Han
China's Diverse Majority
Häftad, 2017
550 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place …
Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State
Häftad, 2017
550 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last …
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Inbunden, 2018
1767 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on …
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Häftad, 2018
534 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on …
Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State
Inbunden, 2017
1819 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last …
Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
Av Jarmila Ptáčková, Stevan Harrell
Inbunden, 2020
1922 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
550 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
1866 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
534 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 …
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
1866 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
609 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
Inbunden, 2027
1847 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. …
Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
Häftad, 1996
534 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, …
Familiar Strangers
A History of Muslims in Northwest China
Häftad, 1998
550 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800554The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have …
Lessons in Being Chinese
Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China
Häftad, 1999
519 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804125Two very different ethnic minority communities—the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan’s border with Burma and Laos—are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and …
Manchus and Han
Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
Häftad, 2000
608 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295997483China’s 1911–12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown—the Qing—was …
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Häftad, 2004
590 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximately eight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve …
On the Margins of Tibet
Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Av Ashild Kolas, Monika P. Thowsen
Häftad, 2004
590 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile …
Guest People
Hakka Identity in China and Abroad
Av Nicole Constable, Nicole Constable
Häftad, 2005
608 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China.
Doing Business in Rural China
Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs
Inbunden, 2007
1866 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804095Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book AwardMountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government …
Communist Multiculturalism
Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
Häftad, 2009
463 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. …
Lijiang Stories
Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
Av Emily Chao
Inbunden, 2013
1767 kr
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Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi …
Lijiang Stories
Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
Av Emily Chao
Häftad, 2013
534 kr
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Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi …
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
Av Tenzin Jinba
Inbunden, 2013
1767 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not …
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
Av Tenzin Jinba
Häftad, 2013
534 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not …
