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China off center : mapping the margins of the middle kingdom / edited by Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen.
LIBRA HN733.5 .C432 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Social conditions--1976-.
- China.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 402 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Foreword: Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China / Prasenjit Duara xiii
- 1 Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom / Susan D. Blum, Lionel M. Jensen 1
- Part I The Center and the Noncenter
- 2 How Much of China Is Ruled by Beijing? / Liu Binyan 25
- 3 Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism / Edward Friedman 31
- 4 The Languages of China / S. Robert Ramsey 45
- Part II Geographic Margins
- Northwest
- 5 Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang / A. Doak Barnett 71
- 6 Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community / Dru C. Gladney 106
- Southwest and the Diaspora
- 7 Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin / Sydney D. White 131
- 8 Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming / Susan D. Blum 148
- 9 The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities / David Yen-Ho Wu 167
- South and Southeast
- 10 The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise / Mary S. Erbaugh 185
- Part III Social and Cultural Margins
- Sexuality
- 11 Sexual Behavior in Modern China / Dalin Liu, Man Lun Ng, Li Ping Zhou, Erwin J. Haeberle 221
- 12 The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality / Vincent E. Gil 238
- Gender and Work
- 13 "The Moon Reflecting the Sunlight": The Village Woman / James Tyson, Ann Tyson 249
- Economic Margins
- 14 The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship / Dorothy J. Solinger 273
- Popular Culture: Rock and Roll
- 15 The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China / Andrew F. Jones 291
- Spiritual Life
- 16 Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China / Eric Karchmer 311
- 17 The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China / Diane Dorfman 323
- Afterword: Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World / Lionel M. Jensen 341.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824823354
- 0824825772
- OCLC:
- 48965139
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