Mark Bender is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China’s Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China. Aku Wuwu is a well-known poet and professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.
21 Ebook di Stevan Harrell
The Nuosu Book of Origins
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701
The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the …
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Susan McCarthy: Communist Multiculturalism
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417
The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing gr …
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Ayi Bamo & Ma Lunzy: Fieldwork Connections
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapt …
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Stevan Harrell: Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousne …
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Stevan Harrell: Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088
China’s exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. A …
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Emily Chao: Lijiang Stories
Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao …
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Margaret Byrne Swain & Denise M. Glover: Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands, 1880-1950
The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Altho …
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Emily T. Yeh & Christopher R. Coggins: Mapping Shangrila
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In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identifie …
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Stevan Harrell: Ploughshare Village
This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conduct …
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Gonçalo Santos & Stevan Harrell: Transforming Patriarchy
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands …
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G. William Skinner: Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sich …
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Gillian G. Tan: In the Circle of White Stones
This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the mil …
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Stevan Harrell: Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan
With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the world’s largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined …
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Stevan Harrell: Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan
With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the world’s largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined …
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€50.65
Stevan Harrell: Human Families
This detailed study maps variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families cooperate and interact with their societies. Harrell describes families in nomadic bands, …
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Stevan Harrell: Human Families
This detailed study maps variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families cooperate and interact with their societies. Harrell describes families in nomadic bands, …
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€68.03
Jarmila Ptáčková: Exile from the Grasslands
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207
At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas …
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Ashley Esarey & Mary Alice Haddad: Greening East Asia
A timely collection examining a diverse region’s environmental shifts East Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, a …
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David R. Stroup: Pure and True
The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the party’s great succe …
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Stevan Harrell: An Ecological History of Modern China
How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilience Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once …
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Stevan Harrell: Chinese Historical Microdemography
Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are …
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