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Invisible China : a journey through ethnic borderlands / Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Legerton, Colin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--China.
- Minorities.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the many lifestyles and adventures of the Chinese natives?they visit an old Catholic fisherman at a church that has been without a priest for 40 years; they hike around high-altitude Lugu Lake to farm with the matriarchal Mos
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Authors' Note; Introduction; I The Northeast; II The Southwest; III The Northwest; IV The East; Afterword; Selected Suggested Reading; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-56976-261-9
- OCLC:
- 429642804
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