Mystifying China's southwest ethnic borderlands : harmonious heterotopia /

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This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the foundi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yang, Yuqing (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Temas:
Minorities > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations.
Minorities.
China > Ethnic relations.
China.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. When the past is present : 1. Recapturing the past: configuring a narrative identity from folklore
  • 2. Reimagining the past: creating new narratives of Baijie
  • 3. Displacing the past: Baijie's modern transformation
  • Part II. Leaving "the country of women" : 4. From "representational violence" to construction of a harmonious mosuo land
  • 5. Unrequited love for the remote country of women
  • 6. The controversial writing career of a Mosuo woman
  • Part III. In search of faith : 7. The localization of Shangri-La
  • 8. Lost on the way to Shambhala: "Tibet, a soul knotted on a leather thong"
  • 9. Full-fledged Shambhala: The Tibet Code.

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