Chieftains into ancestors : imperial expansion and Indigenous society in Southwest China / edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faure, David.

Ts'ui-p'ing, Ho.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523.

Contemporary Chinese studies, 1925-0177

Contemporary Chinese Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--China, Southwest.

Ethnology.

Minorities--China, Southwest--Government relations.

Minorities.

Minorities--China, Southwest--Ethnic identity.

Ancestor worship--China, Southwest.

Ancestor worship.

China, Southwest--History.

China, Southwest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious ritual. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture. Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records, it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate the crucial question of how one can begin to write the history of a conquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combining anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they dig deep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history of China's southwestern region � one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China's nation-building process.

Contents:

Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: Language Ideology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong's Qhuab Kev (Showing the Way) / Huang Shu-li

Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning

The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on the Border of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang

Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors / Lian Ruizhi

From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority: The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan / Xie Xiaohui

The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of Native Subjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / He Xi

The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor, Connect to the State / David Faure

The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production and Social Reproduction / James Wilkerson

Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland / Ho Ts'ui-p'ing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-2370-4

OCLC:

814661656