Lijiang stories : shamans, taxi drivers, and runaway brides in reform-era China / / Emily Chao

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812448403321
• Autore: Chao Emily
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-295-80438-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 248 p. : ill
• Collana: Studies on ethnic groups in China
• Disciplina: 305.895/4
• Soggetti: Naxi (Chinese people) - China - Lijiang Shi - Government relations; Naxi (Chinese people) - China - Lijiang Shi - Economic conditions; Naxi (Chinese people) - China - Lijiang Shi - Social life and customs; Post-communisim - China - Lijiang Shi; Lijiang Shi (China) Ethnic relations; Lijiang Shi (China) Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The Maoist shaman and the madman -- Dongba culture and the authenticization of marginality -- Ethnicizing myth, bride abduction, and elopement -- Biopolitics: fox stench, gender boundaries, and the moral economy of postsocialism -- Marketing difference: dog meat, court cases, and ethnopreneurs -- Conclusion: Forgetting the madman and remembering the ancient Tea House Road.