Lijiang Stories

Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvEmily Chao

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies on Ethnic Groups in China
Antal sidor232
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
MedarbetareHarrell,Stevan
ISBN9780295992228

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Foreword by Stevan HarrellAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Maoist Shaman and the Madman2. Dongba Culture and the Authenticization of Marginality3. Ethnicizing Myth, Bride Abduction, and Elopement4. Biopolitics: Fox Stench, Gender Boundaries, and the Moral Economy of Postsocialism5. Marketing Difference: Dog Meat, Court Cases, and EthnopreneursConclusion | Forgetting the Madman and Remembering the Ancient Tea Horse RoadNotesReferencesIndex