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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457685303321

Autore

Meriam Beth

Titolo

China's 'Tibetan' frontiers [[electronic resource] ] : sharing the contested ground / / by Beth Meriam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Brill, c2012

ISBN

1-283-36597-9

9786613365972

90-04-21269-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Inner Asia book series ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

306.0951

Soggetti

Ethnology - China - Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou

Electronic books.

Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) Social conditions

Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations

Yushu Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Opening Vistas, Bordering Spaces -- I. Reclassified Societies -- II. Stressing Development -- III. Cultivating Nationalities -- IV. Civilizing Culture -- V. Empowering Locales -- VI. Other Modernities -- VII. Revisualizing Nationalities -- Conclusion: Common Ground -- Appendix One: Chronology of China’s Reform Era -- Appendix Two: Glossary of Principal Political Terms -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching account of the changing social, political and organizational topography of western China. The seismic changes wrought across this region in recent history are seen through the lens of Trinde, a remote ‘autonomous’ county on the Tibetan plateau. Drawing on over two years of detailed empirical research in a region never previously investigated by foreign researchers, Beth Meriam traces and interlinks the human, national and global dimensions of continuity and change. Her work provides important new insights into how the challenges and opportunities of China’s reform era are producing innovative social and



political responses from the people in this area. This sensitive, controversial work provides a rare and intimate account of a highly diverse range of people, and highlights their central role in shaping this dynamic, changing society. Set in a region that is never long out of the headlines, the ethnography vividly illustrates how policy fluctuations across this region involve difficult, and often painful, dilemmas for local people. Synthesizing anthropological insight with Tibetological rigour, the study shows how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in creating, reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice. The book will be of interest to a wide audience, including students and scholars of Chinese nationality studies and Tibetology, as well as those with an interest in social and political anthropology or who are looking for a penetrating and integrated analysis of this hotly-debated and often misunderstood region.

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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003245839707536

Titolo

Identità territoriali e cultura politica nella prima età moderna = Territoriale Identitat und politische Kultur in der Fruhen Neuzeit / a cura di von Marco Bellabarba, Reinhard Stauber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Il mulino

Berlin : Dunker & Humblot, c1998

ISBN

8815068740

Descrizione fisica

405 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento = Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient. Beitrage ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

Bellabarba, Marco

Stauber, Reinhard

Disciplina

940.2

Soggetti

Nazionalità - Europa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Relazioni presentate al Convegno tenuto a Trento nel 1997