Uradyn E. Bulag is reader in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction: Triangulating China's EthnopoliticsPart I: Subimperial DesiresChapter 1: Hunting Chinggis Khan's Skull and SoulChapter 2: Lamas to the Rescue: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Imperial NationalismsPart II: Collaborative NationalismChapter 3: Friendship, Treason, and Collaborative NationalismChapter 4: Yearning for Friendship: The Political in Minority Revolutionary HistoryPart III: Interethnic IntimacyChapter 5: The Flight of the Golden Pony: Socialism and the Stillbirth of the Mongolian Working ClassChapter 6: Interethnic Adoption and the Regime of AffectionConclusion: The Specter of Interethnic FriendshipBibliography

Bulag's brilliant new book examines China's 'culture of intimacy,' in which minorities like the Mongolians and Tibetans are embraced in a suffocating hug. In a theoretical tour-de-force, Bulag overturns old conceptions of majority-minority relations, replacing them with a notion of society as a triadic space of possibilities. This is an essential book for understanding China, seeing it not as a unity but as a field of collaboration and contention.

Uradyn E. Bulag is reader in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction: Triangulating China's EthnopoliticsPart I: Subimperial DesiresChapter 1: Hunting Chinggis Khan's Skull and SoulChapter 2: Lamas to the Rescue: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Imperial NationalismsPart II: Collaborative NationalismChapter 3: Friendship, Treason, and Collaborative NationalismChapter 4: Yearning for Friendship: The Political in Minority Revolutionary HistoryPart III: Interethnic IntimacyChapter 5: The Flight of the Golden Pony: Socialism and the Stillbirth of the Mongolian Working ClassChapter 6: Interethnic Adoption and the Regime of AffectionConclusion: The Specter of Interethnic FriendshipBibliography

Bulag's brilliant new book examines China's 'culture of intimacy,' in which minorities like the Mongolians and Tibetans are embraced in a suffocating hug. In a theoretical tour-de-force, Bulag overturns old conceptions of majority-minority relations, replacing them with a notion of society as a triadic space of possibilities. This is an essential book for understanding China, seeing it not as a unity but as a field of collaboration and contention.

Uradyn E. Bulag is reader in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction: Triangulating China's EthnopoliticsPart I: Subimperial DesiresChapter 1: Hunting Chinggis Khan's Skull and SoulChapter 2: Lamas to the Rescue: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Imperial NationalismsPart II: Collaborative NationalismChapter 3: Friendship, Treason, and Collaborative NationalismChapter 4: Yearning for Friendship: The Political in Minority Revolutionary HistoryPart III: Interethnic IntimacyChapter 5: The Flight of the Golden Pony: Socialism and the Stillbirth of the Mongolian Working ClassChapter 6: Interethnic Adoption and the Regime of AffectionConclusion: The Specter of Interethnic FriendshipBibliography

Bulag's brilliant new book examines China's 'culture of intimacy,' in which minorities like the Mongolians and Tibetans are embraced in a suffocating hug. In a theoretical tour-de-force, Bulag overturns old conceptions of majority-minority relations, replacing them with a notion of society as a triadic space of possibilities. This is an essential book for understanding China, seeing it not as a unity but as a field of collaboration and contention.