Mark Bender is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at Ohio State University. He is the author of Plum and Bamboo: China’s Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and translator of Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China. Aku Wuwu is a well-known poet and professor and associate dean of the College of Yi Studies, Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu. Jjivot Zopqu is a local tradition-bearer in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan.
21 Ebooks by Stevan Harrell
The Nuosu Book of Origins
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701
The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the …
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Susan McCarthy: Communist Multiculturalism
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417
The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing gr …
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Ayi Bamo & Ma Lunzy: Fieldwork Connections
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapt …
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Stevan Harrell: Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousne …
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Stevan Harrell: Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088
China’s exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. A …
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Emily Chao: Lijiang Stories
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 …
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Margaret Byrne Swain & Denise M. Glover: Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands, 1880-1950
The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Altho …
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Emily T. Yeh & Christopher R. Coggins: Mapping Shangrila
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023
In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identifie …
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Stevan Harrell: Ploughshare Village
This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conduct …
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Gonçalo Santos & Stevan Harrell: Transforming Patriarchy
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands …
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G. William Skinner: Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sich …
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Gillian G. Tan: In the Circle of White Stones
This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the mil …
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Stevan Harrell: Human Families
This detailed study maps variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families cooperate and interact with their societies. Harrell describes families in nomadic bands, …
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Stevan Harrell: Human Families
This detailed study maps variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families cooperate and interact with their societies. Harrell describes families in nomadic bands, …
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€59.47
Jarmila Ptáčková: Exile from the Grasslands
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207
At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas …
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Ashley Esarey & Mary Alice Haddad: Greening East Asia
East Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of worldwide g …
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David R. Stroup: Pure and True
The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui—China’s largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the party’s great succe …
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Stevan Harrell: An Ecological History of Modern China
Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the he …
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Stevan Harrell: Chinese Historical Microdemography
Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are …
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