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Minority rules : the Miao and the feminine in China's cultural politics /

Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation's fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over sev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schein, Louisa, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2000.
Colección:Body, commodity, text.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Nation/Representation
  • Of Origins and Ethnonyms: Contested Histories, Productive Ethnologies
  • Making Minzu: The State, the Category, and the Work
  • Internal Orientalism: Gender and the Popularizaton of China's Others
  • Reconfiguring the Dominant
  • Part 2. Identity and Cultural Struggle
  • Songs for Sale: Spectacle from Mao to Market
  • Scribes, Sartorial Acts, and the State: Calling Culture Back
  • Displacing Subalternity: The Mobile Other
  • Performances of Minzu Modernity
  • Conclusion.