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  • An Ecological History of Modern China

    by Stevan Harrell ...
    How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilienceIs 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 heart of An Ecological History of Modern China, a comprehensive account of China's transformation since the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Human Families

    by Stevan Harrell ...
    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, traditional African societies, Polynesian and Micronesian societies, native societies of the Pacific Northwest coast, preindustrial class societies, and modern industrial societies. His extensive case ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan

    by Stevan Harrell ...
    With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the world's largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined the ranks of developed countries. Yet, despite the attention focused on the country's profound transformation, surprisingly little information exists ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Painting Thangkas on the Tibetan Plateau

    Buddhist Art Making in Transition

    by Xue Ming, Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Artists navigate faith, commerce, and gender as thangkas thrive beyond traditionXue Ming offers a rare and deeply researched look into the lives of Rebgong thangka painters, whose sacred art is at once devotional, commercial, and political. Rebgong, a major center of thangka painting since at least the eighteenth century, has long been a site of artistic and religious significance. But in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China

    by Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic ... Read more

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  • Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China

    Buyi and the Paradox of Difference

    by Yu Luo, Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    An ethnic group at the crossroads of uniqueness and conformity in southwestern ChinaThe Buyi people face a dilemma. On the one hand, they work hard to maintain their culture—both out of pride and to attract visitors to their region. On the other, they want to maintain the government and popular perception of the Buyi as part of the Chinese civilization, a notion that in turn undermines the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers

    by Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological ... Read more

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  • Ploughshare Village

    Culture and Context in Taiwan

    by Stevan Harrell, Stevan Harrell ...
    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 conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also because the village itself was unique. Unlike villages previously studied and written about, Ploughshare ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Pure and True

    The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims

    by David R. Stroup, Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    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 success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but they lack a common homeland or a distinct language, and have long been partitioned by sect, class, region, and language. Despite these ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Nuosu Book of Origins

    A Creation Epic from Southwest China

    Translated by Mark Bender, Aku Wuwu ...
    by Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare ... Read more

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  • In the Circle of White Stones

    Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

    by Gillian G. Tan, Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    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 milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan’s story, based on her own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the community ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Lijiang Stories

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

    by Emily Chao ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD