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China's New Socialist Countryside Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley / Russell Harwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harwood, Russell.
- Series:
- Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
- Studies on ethnic groups in China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural population--China--Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
- Rural population.
- Rural development--China--Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
- Rural development.
- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China)--Economic conditions.
- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China).
- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Washington Press 2013
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection of medicinal plants from surrounding forests, and small-scale logging to sustain their household economies. China's New Socialist Countryside explores how compulsory education, conservation programs, migration for work, and the expansion of social and economic infrastructure are not only transforming livelihoods, but also intensifying the Chinese Party-state’s capacity to integrate ethnic minorities into its political fabric and the national industrial economy.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Foreword by Stevan Harrell""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Equivalents and Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Life at the Periphery of the Chinese Party-State: An Introduction""; ""2. Nature Reserves and Reforestation: The Impacts of Conservation Programs upon Livelihoods""; ""3. All Is Not as It Appears: Education Reform""; ""4. Migration from the Margins: Increasing Outward Migration for Work""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary of Chinese Terms""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295804781
- 0295804785
- OCLC:
- 1018056117
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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