Chieftains into Ancestors - Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China

Informationen zum Autor Edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing Klappentext An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China's minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture. Zusammenfassung An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China’s minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / David Faure 1   Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: LanguageIdeology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong's QhuabKev (Showing the Way) / Huang Shu-li 2   Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigaoin Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning 3   The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on theBorder of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang 4   Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, andAncestors / Lian Ruizhi 5   From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority:The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan /Xie Xiaohui 6   The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of NativeSubjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / HeXi 7   The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor,Connect to the State / David Faure 8   The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production andSocial Reproduction / James Wilkerson 9   Gendering Ritual Community across the ChineseSouthwest Borderland / Ho Ts'ui-p'ing Contributors Index

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• Authors: David (EDT)/ Ho Faure, ing (EDT), ui-p&apos
• Assisted by: David Faure (Editor), Ts'ui-p'ing Ho (Editor), Ho Ts'Ui-P'Ing (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9780774823692
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-2369-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies; Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories