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In one's own shadow : an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China / Xin Liu.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liu, Xin, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural development--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
- Rural development.
- Social change--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
- Social change.
- Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Rural conditions.
- Shaanxi Sheng (China).
- Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in northwestern China, In One's Own Shadow skillfully analyzes the changes and continuities marking the recent history of this region and highlights the broader implications for the way we understand Chinese modernity.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes on the Text; 1. Exotic Familiarity; 2. Resisting Ideology; 3. Marriage as a Mirror of Change; 4. Meaning and Eating; 5. The Practice of Everyday Life; 6. The Pliable Emotions; 7. Immoral Politics; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92347-2
- 1-59734-673-X
- OCLC:
- 475930060
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