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China's Tibetan frontiers : sharing the contested ground /

This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching account of the changing social, political and organizational topography of western China. The seismic changes wrought across this region in recent history are seen through the lens of Trinde, a remote 'autonomous' county on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Meriam, Beth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Brill, Ã2011.
Series:Inner Asia series. vol. 9
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Opening Vistas, Bordering Spaces
  • I. Reclassified Societies
  • II. Stressing Development
  • III. Cultivating Nationalities
  • IV. Civilizing Culture
  • V. Empowering Locales
  • VI. Other Modernities
  • VII. Revisualizing Nationalities
  • Conclusion: Common Ground
  • Appendix One: Chronology of China's Reform Era
  • Appendix Two: Glossary of Principal Political Terms
  • References
  • Index.