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Lijiang Stories

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Description for Lijiang Stories Paperback. Reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are pre-eminent Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.

Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.

The vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295992235
SKU
V9780295992235
Shipping Time
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About Emily Chao
Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

Reviews for Lijiang Stories
"Lijiang Stories is much more than a set of stories. It is a careful exegesis of the many strands that, woven together, have become today’s Lijiang. The accessible prose and fascinating range of skillfully analyzed, ethnographically nuanced “stories would make this an excellent text for courses on contemporary China."
Tami Blumenfield
China Quarterly
"Lijiang Stories is a ... Read more

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