ISBN:
1906876304
,
9781906876302
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 331 p.)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Inner Asia book series vol. 6
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Meriam, Beth China's "Tibetan" frontiers
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations
;
Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) Politics and government
;
Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) Social conditions
;
Regional planning
;
China
;
Trindu (China)
;
Politics and government
;
21st century
;
Trindu (China)
;
Social life and customs
;
21st century
;
Qinghai
;
Tibeter
;
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Soziale Identität
Abstract:
This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of 'ethnic' China's changing cultural topography. The study offers a timely reexamination of the complex and subtle processes of identification and belonging in a 'Tibetan' autonomous area. This work highlights how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice
Description / Table of Contents:
China's 'Tibetan' Frontiers; Inner Asia Book Series; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSCRIPTION; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; MAPS AND PLANS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: OPENING VISTAS, BORDERING SPACES; Contextual Overview; Fieldsite and Methodological Overview; Historical Perspectives: The Centrality of Marginality; Nationality Autonomy as a Governmental Discourse of Rationality; Nationalities and the Problem of Religion; Idioms of 'the State' in China; Chapter by Chapter Overview; A Note on Recent Events
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER ONE: RECLASSIFIED SOCIETIESCompensating Class Wrongs; Reform Era Perceptions of Morality; Contemporary Criticality; Money, Morality and Socio-Political Affiliation; Reclassified Sociality; CHAPTER TWO: STRESSING DEVELOPMENT; Developing the West; Overview of Environmental Policies and Pressures in Yushu; Development Policies and Social Anxieties; Local Suspicions Surrounding Official Developmental Intentions; Regional Disparities and 'Opening Up' Anxieties at the School; Circulation of Multiple Discourses; Developing an Autonomous Nationality Constituency
Description / Table of Contents:
Expressing Development Frustrations through Nationality IdiomsCHAPTER THREE: CULTIVATING NATIONALITIES; Constituting Nationality; Conceptualizing Nationality in Yushu; Categorical Violence: Nationalities and Ancestral Land; Becoming Pitiless in One's Own House?; Gendering Nationalities; International Encounters; Cultivating Nationality Styles; Shifting Social Constituencies; Multiple Idioms of Identification and Difference; CHAPTER FOUR: CIVILIZING CULTURE; Local Content of Civilizing Culture; Civilizing Culture Work of Local Leaders
Description / Table of Contents:
Literary Culture as an Index of Nationality Civility and AutonomyTransmitting Civilizing Culture; Gendered Civilizing Culture; The Risks Of Prioritizing Civilizing Nationality Cultures; Rejecting Civilizing Culture; Reorganizing Cultural Politics and Political Cultures; CHAPTER FIVE: EMPOWERING LOCALES; Lhabab Overview; Lama Namje's History; Local Critiques of Lhabab; Negotiating Official Scrutiny; The Politics of Reform Era Ritual Practice; Local and National SARS Responses; Imbricating Idioms; CHAPTER SIX: OTHER MODERNITIES; Thematic Overview: Complex Modernities
Description / Table of Contents:
Autonomously Reformed CoursesDebating Modernities through NGO Practice; Modernizing Youth Perspectives; Integrating Discourses; CHAPTER SEVEN: REVISUALIZING NATIONALITIES; Local Arts in Historical Perspective; Discussion of Televisual Media's Effects on Nationality; Communicating a Boundless World: China Mobile's Virtual Tibets; Virtually Circulating Nationalities; CONCLUSION: COMMON GROUND; Final Summary and Analysis; APPENDIX ONE: CHRONOLOGY OF CHINA'S REFORM ERA; APPENDIX TWO: MULTILINGUAL GLOSSARY OF PRINCIPAL POLITICAL TERMS; REFERENCES; INDEX;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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