The Story of Yushichang Village - Process and Choices of a Local State, 1949-2009

Located in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Yushichang is a typical village of the Pumi ethnic group. With a current population of more than 360, the village has been home to the Pumi people for more than 500 years. Over the first six decades of the People's Republic of China, Yushichang village has managed to protect both its ecological environment and the Pumi culture. Drawing on a rich trove of oral history and ethnographic studies, this book tries to understand, at both the micro and macro levels, how this population has navigated the tension between tradition and modernity and what resources it might bring to bear to meet future challenges.

List of contents

Preface - Folk Memory and Historical Construction: Sixty Years Ago - Social Reconstruction after the Reform and Opening Up - Social Process and Network: Individual Choices - Destiny of the Village: Road and Direction - Postscript - Bibliography.

About the author

Zhu Lingfei
received his PhD in sociology from Nankai University and is now Professor and Researcher at Yunnan University. His main research interests are globalization and ethnic societies, including anthropology of the road, the border, and the study of the sense of community for the Chinese nation.

Product details

• Authors: Zhu Lingfei
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2023
• EAN: 9781433177736
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-7773-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 15 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Illustrations: 5 Abb.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; State, local, Story, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, cultural identity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, process, Rural communities, Village, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Population & demography, Population and Demography, South China, choices, The Great Leap Forward, Rural communities / rural life, Pumi people, Lingfei, Yushichang, migration routes