Tracing China : A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey /

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Tracing China chronicles forty years of fieldwork. The journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China; it spans decades of persistent rural-urban divide and eventually uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Siu tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siu, Helen F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rural-urban relations > China > Hong Kong.
Rural-urban relations > China, Southeast.
Ethnology > China > Hong Kong.
Ethnology > China, Southeast.
Hong Kong (China) > Civilization.
China, Southeast > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : China as process
  • part 1. Tracing meaningful life-worlds
  • 1. Reflections on historical anthropology
  • 2. Cultural identity and the politics of difference in south China
  • part 2. Moving targets
  • 3. Images : prologue to agents and victims in south China
  • 4. China's century : fast forward with historical baggage
  • part 3. Structuring and human agency
  • 5. Socialist peddlers and princes in a Chinese market town
  • 6. Recycling rituals : politics and popular culture in contemporary rural China
  • 7. Reconstituting dowry and brideprice in south China
  • part 4. Culturing power
  • 8. Recycling tradition : culture, history, and political economy in the chrysanthemum festivals of south China
  • 9. Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan : ethnicity in the Pearl River Delta of south China
  • 10. The grounding of cosmopolitans : merchants and local cultures in south China
  • part 5. History between the lines
  • 11. Where were the women? Rethinking marriage resistance and regional culture in south China
  • 12. Social responsibility and self-expression : introduction to furrows : peasants, intellectuals, and the state
  • part 6. Place-making : locality and translocality
  • 13. Subverting lineage power : local bosses and territorial control in the 1940s
  • 14. The cultural landscape of luxury housing in south China : a regional history
  • 15. Positioning "Hong Kongers" and "new immigrants"
  • 16. Grounding displacement : uncivil urban spaces in post-reform south China
  • part 7. Historical global and the Asian postmodern
  • 17. Hong Kong : cultural kaleidoscope on a world landscape
  • 18. Women of influence : gendered charisma
  • 19. Retuning a provincialized middle class in Asia's urban postmodern : the case of Hong Kong.

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