Chieftains into ancestors : imperial expansion and Indigenous society in Southwest China /

While official Chinese history has always been written from acentrist viewpoint, Chieftains into Ancestors describes theintersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated localculture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how on...

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مؤلفون آخرون: Faure, David, Ts'ui-p'ing, Ho
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
الصينية
منشور في: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.
سلاسل:Contemporary Chinese studies.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=510493
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الملخص:While official Chinese history has always been written from acentrist viewpoint, Chieftains into Ancestors describes theintersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated localculture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewritethe story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in thefirst place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork withhistorical textual analysis to build a new regionalhistory one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, andgendered transformations that took place in Chinasnation-building process.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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تدمد:1925-0177