In the Land of the Eastern Queendom : The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jinba, Tenzin.

Contributor:

University of Washington. Libraries, Funder.

Series:

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou (China)--Social life and customs.

Local Subjects:

Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou (China)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2013.

University of Washington Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 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 only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese state. Tenzin Jinba's research examines the consequences of development of the queendom label for local ethnic, gender, and political identities and for state-society relations.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1. Setting Foot in the Queen's Land""; ""Chapter 2. Masculine and Feminine Internal Others in China""; ""Chapter 3. From The Valley of Beauties to the Eastern Queendom ""; ""Chapter 4. The Queendom and Grassroots Politics""; ""Chapter 5. The Moluo Trourism Association: How Far to Go? ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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 online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 05 2025)

ISBN:

9780295804842

029580484X

OCLC:

932315584