This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues about ethnic classifications and the way they are used, making this a book that will be useful for all students of ethnicity.Overturning the generalising tendencies characteristic of classic anthropology, Rack demonstrates that e...(展开全部)

Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a popu...(展开全部)

Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a popu...(展开全部)

"This book is primarily about the peoples of Liangshan and Panzhihua. However, it also has quite a bit to say about ethnic relations in the People's Republic, about ethnology, and about the nature of the Chinese state and its future." - Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan...(展开全部)

"This book is primarily about the peoples of Liangshan and Panzhihua. However, it also has quite a bit to say about ethnic relations in the People's Republic, about ethnology, and about the nature of the Chinese state and its future." - Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan...(展开全部)

Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood masculinity? How did their attitudes in turn shape the martial heroes and other masculine models they constructed? Martin Huang attempts to answer these questions in this valuable work on manhood in ...(展开全部)

These essays address related facets of the shifting and fluid process of negotiation that is the real nature of ethnic relations in China, past and present, and by extension in the rest of the world. The volume concerns itself both with the overarching identity, first cultural and then national, that we now call "Chinese" and with its constituent ethnicites, including both the ...(展开全部)

This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953 the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, its beginnings are poorly understood and oft...(展开全部)

This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953 the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, its beginnings are poorly understood and oft...(展开全部)

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily ...(展开全部)