State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Guo   Xiaolin  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9789047433620

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004167759

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004167759

Subject： K3 Asian History

Keyword： 亚洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

An exhaustive narrative of political integration from the early years of the PRC to the present era of economic reform that foregrounds ethnic politics while problematizing the contradiction between a highly centralized state and persistence of local variations.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations, Figures and Maps

Introduction

Chapter One The Southwest Frontier

1.1 Imperial Rule

1.2 Republican Nation Building

1.3 Socialist Transformation

Chapter Two Of Difference and Change

2.1 Varieties of Cultural Experience

2.2 Kinship and Economy

2.3 Administered Development

Chapter Three The Land of Women

3.1 The People in Question

3.2 Matrilineal Descent

3.3 Mosuo Livelihood

Chapter Four The Three-River Basin

4.1 Old Garrison Settlement

4.2 Patrilineal Kinship

4.3 Rice Economy

Chapter Five Ethnicity and Government

5.1 Local Domination

5.2 State in Society

5.3 Preferential Policy at Work

Chapter Six Between the Interior and Frontier

6.1 Evolution of the Local State

6.2 Rural Administration

6.3 Economic Imperative

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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