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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796385703321

Autore

Yang Yuqing

Titolo

Mystifying China's southwest ethnic borderlands : harmonious heterotopia / / Yuqing Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-0298-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Disciplina

951.004

Soggetti

Minorities - China

China Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. When the past is present : 1. Recapturing the past: configuring a narrative identity from folklore -- 2. Reimagining the past: creating new narratives of Baijie -- 3. Displacing the past: Baijie's modern transformation -- Part II. Leaving "the country of women" : 4. From "representational violence" to construction of a harmonious mosuo land -- 5. Unrequited love for the remote country of women -- 6. The controversial writing career of a Mosuo woman -- Part III. In search of faith : 7. The localization of Shangri-La -- 8. Lost on the way to Shambhala: "Tibet, a soul knotted on a leather thong" -- 9. Full-fledged Shambhala: The Tibet Code.

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in Southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "Harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the People's Republic of China--back cover