| Autore |
Siu Helen F.
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (527 pages) : illustrations, maps
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| Disciplina |
951.2
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| Soggetto topico |
Rural-urban relations - China - Hong Kong
Rural-urban relations - China, Southeast
Ethnology - China - Hong Kong
Ethnology - China, Southeast
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9789888313396
9888313398
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : China as process -- part 1. Tracing meaningful life-worlds -- 1. Reflections on historical anthropology -- 2. Cultural identity and the politics of difference in south China -- part 2. Moving targets -- 3. Images : prologue to agents and victims in south China -- 4. China's century : fast forward with historical baggage -- part 3. Structuring and human agency -- 5. Socialist peddlers and princes in a Chinese market town -- 6. Recycling rituals : politics and popular culture in contemporary rural China -- 7. Reconstituting dowry and brideprice in south China -- part 4. Culturing power -- 8. Recycling tradition : culture, history, and political economy in the chrysanthemum festivals of south China -- 9. Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan : ethnicity in the Pearl River Delta of south China -- 10. The grounding of cosmopolitans : merchants and local cultures in south China -- part 5. History between the lines -- 11. Where were the women? Rethinking marriage resistance and regional culture in south China -- 12. Social responsibility and self-expression : introduction to furrows : peasants, intellectuals, and the state -- part 6. Place-making : locality and translocality -- 13. Subverting lineage power : local bosses and territorial control in the 1940s -- 14. The cultural landscape of luxury housing in south China : a regional history -- 15. Positioning "Hong Kongers" and "new immigrants" -- 16. Grounding displacement : uncivil urban spaces in post-reform south China -- part 7. Historical global and the Asian postmodern -- 17. Hong Kong : cultural kaleidoscope on a world landscape -- 18. Women of influence : gendered charisma -- 19. Retuning a provincialized middle class in Asia's urban postmodern : the case of Hong Kong.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136717803321 |
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