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Marginalization in China : recasting minority politics / Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky.
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Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheung, Siu Keung.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--China--History--Sources.
- Marginality, Social--China--History--Sources.
- Minorities--Civil rights--China--History--Sources.
- Minorities--Government policy--China--History--Sources.
- Multiculturalism--China--History--Sources.
- Social conditions.
- Ethnic relations.
- Multiculturalism.
- History.
- Minorities--Government policy.
- Minorities--Civil rights.
- Marginality, Social.
- Minorities.
- China--Ethnic relations--Sources.
- China--Social conditions--Sources.
- China.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This collection of historical and contemporary accounts of minority formation debunks popular misconceptions about China's highly centralized state and seemingly homogeneous society. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and field work, it documents how state and citizens meet in a polities of minority recognition and highlights China's growing awareness of rights.
- Contents:
- Making minorities in China / Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky
- Reaching out for the ladder of success: "Outsiders" and the civil examination in late Imperial China / Wing-Kin Puk
- Banditry, marginality, and survival among the laboring poor in late Imperial south China / Robert J. Antony
- Politics of faith: Christian activism and the Maoist state in south China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
- The transnational redress campaign for Chinese survivors of wartime sexual violence in Shanxi province / Yuki Terazawa
- The Chinese underclass and organized crime as a stepladder of social ascent / Ming Xia
- Feminisation, recognition and the cosmological in Xishuangbanna / Anouska Komlosy
- Re-presenting women's identities: recognition and representation of rural Chinese women / Sharon R. Wesoky
- "This is my mother's land!" an indigenous woman speaks out / Siu-Keung Cheung
- Making rights claims visible: intersectionality, NGO activism, and cultural politics in Hong Kong / Lisa Fischler
- Institutionalizing the representation of religious minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong / Lida V. Nedilsky
- The limits of Chinese transnationalism: the cultural identity of Malaysian-Chinese students in Guangzhou / Kam-Yee Law, Kim-Ming Lee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780230622418
- 0230622410
- Publisher Number:
- 99972864321
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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