Other Chinas - The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging

"Other Chinas" is a theoretically rich and multi-sited ethnography that challenges the dominant notion that the Han subject is always the face of Chinese nationalism. Litzinger demonstrates, with brilliant liveliness, how the paths to and from indigenism have long been at the center of the cultural politics of the socialist state. This book should be read by anyone interested in debates about subaltern agency, the writing of national histories, and the critique of post-socialist modernities."--Bruce Grant, Swarthmore College

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Writing the Margins: An Introduction
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2. Inciting the Past
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3. Moral Geographies of Place
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4. Remembering Revolution
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5. The State and its Ritual Potencies
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6. Post-socialist Belonging

Epilogue: Remapping the Margins

Bibliography

About the author

Ralph A. Litzinger is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph A Litzinger, Ralph A. Litzinger
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2000
• EAN: 9780822325499
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2549-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Asiatische Geschichte, Sociology, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China