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China off center : mapping the margins of the middle kingdom / edited by Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen.
De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook Package 2000-2013 Available online
De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook Package 2000-2013- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Social conditions--1976-2000.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic reports focuses on the everyday, the particular, the local, and the puzzling. Together with contextualizing introductions, the readings provide students with a compelling look at some little-known but significant aspects of China from the past decade; for those already familiar with China, they furnish an assortment of uncommon viewpoints in a single, convenient volume.Foreword by Prasenjit DuaraContributors: A. Doak Barnett, Susan D. Blum, Diane Dorfman, Mary S. Erbaugh, Edward Friedman, Vincent E. Gil, Dru Gladney, Erwin J. Haeberle, Lionel M. Jensen, Andrew F. Jones, Eric Ivan Karchmer, Liu Binyan, Dalin Liu, Man Lun Ng, S. Robert Ramsey, Dorothy J. Solinger, Ann Tyson, James Tyson, Sydney White, David Yen-ho Wu, Li Ping Zhou.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The center and the noncenter
- pt. 2. Geographic margins
- pt. 3. Social and cultural margins.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-385) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824861834
- 0824861833
- 9780585464022
- 0585464022
- OCLC:
- 52763644
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