| Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China Contributor(s): Chao, Emily (Author), Harrell, Stevan (Foreword by) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0295992239 ISBN-13: 9780295992235 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Asia - China - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 305.895 |
| LCCN: 2012018966 |
| Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world. The vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent. |