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Contesting the Yellow Dragon - Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009

English · Hardback

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Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine a garrison city and a pilgrimage center in the Sino-Tibetan borderland, tracing the dynamic role of religion and ethnicity in state/society relations from the Ming founding through Communist revolution to the age of tourism.

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Xiaofei Kang received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University. She has published on religion, ethnicity, tourism, and gender, including The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China (Columbia, 2006).

Donald Sutton (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published books on 20th century warlordism and popular religion in Taiwan, and numerous articles on the 18th century Miao in west Hunan and on ritual in past and recent Chinese societies.


Product details

Authors Xiaofei Kang, Donald S Sutton, Donald S. Sutton
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 23.06.2016
 
EAN 9789004319226
ISBN 978-90-04-31922-6
No. of pages 508
Dimensions 161 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
Weight 828 g
Series Religion in Chinese Societies
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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