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Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Softcover
Official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history – one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China’s nation-building process.
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This is a fantastic and first-class collection, highly original in its combination of anthropological with historical approaches and marking a real contribution to understandings of social and cultural processes in southern China. Authored by some of the leading scholars in the field with an unparalleled knowledge of this subject, "Chieftains into Ancestors" is original and enlightening.
- Nicholas Tapp, author of The "Hmong of China: Context, Agency and the Imaginary"
We need to examine state expansion from the perspective of local societies and, with "Chieftains into Ancestors," we now have the conceptual and methodological tools to do this. This is historical anthropology and micro-history at its best.
- John E. Herman, author of "Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700"
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- Nicholas Tapp, author of The "Hmong of China: Context, Agency and the Imaginary"
We need to examine state expansion from the perspective of local societies and, with "Chieftains into Ancestors," we now have the conceptual and methodological tools to do this. This is historical anthropology and micro-history at its best.
- John E. Herman, author of "Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700"
This is a fantastic and first-class collection, highly original in its combination of anthropological with historical approaches and marking a real contribution to understandings of social and cultural processes in southern China. Authored by some of the leading scholars in the field with an unparalleled knowledge of this subject, Chieftains into Ancestors is original and enlightening. Author: Nicholas Tapp, author of The Hmong of China: Context, Agency and the Imaginary
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- PublisherUBC Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0774823690
- ISBN 13 9780774823692
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
- EditorFaure David, Ho Ts'ui-p'ing
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint,largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved forgenerations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, andreligious ritual.Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection ofimperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture.Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records,it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan,and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate thecrucial question of how one can begin to write the history of aconquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combininganthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they digdeep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history ofChinas southwestern region one that recognizes theethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place inChinas nation-building process. An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern Chinas minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780774823692
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