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 a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent.
| ISBN: | 9780295992235 |
| Publication date: | 15th May 2013 |
| Author: | Stevan Harrell |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Politics and government |
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.
Lijiang Stories features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Politics and government
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Lijiang Stories was written by Stevan Harrell and published by University of Washington Press
Lijiang Stories has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Studies on Ethnic Groups in China series
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