Medicine and Memory in Tibet

Theresia Hofer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004 Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was c... Lees meer

In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

Tenzin Jinba

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842 The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remn... Lees meer

Lessons in Being Chinese

Mette Halskov Hansen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804125 Two very different ethnic minority communities--the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the... Lees meer

Communist Multiculturalism

Susan McCarthy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At ... Lees meer

Manchus and Han

Edward J M Rhoads

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295997483 China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primaril... Lees meer

Manchus and Han

Edward J M Rhoads

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295997483 China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primaril... Lees meer

Pure and True

David R Stroup

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• What are the boundaries of Hui identity? The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui--China's largest Muslim ethnic group--as a model ethnic minorit... Lees meer

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

Justin M Jacobs

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570 Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Ha... Lees meer

Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057 Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic... Lees meer

Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers

Stevan Harrell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China o... Lees meer

In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

Tenzin Jinba

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842 The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remn... Lees meer

Doing Business in Rural China

Thomas Heberer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804095 Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sic... Lees meer

Lessons in Being Chinese

Mette Halskov Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804125 Two very different ethnic minority communities--the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the... Lees meer

On the Margins of Tibet

Ashild Kolas, Monika P Thowsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101 The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable ... Lees meer

Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China

Stevan Harrell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071 Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking ... Lees meer

Communist Multiculturalism

Susan McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417 The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At ... Lees meer

In the Circle of White Stones

Gillian G Tan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their y... Lees meer

Guest People

Nicole Constable

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450 The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, ... Lees meer

Medicine and Memory in Tibet

Theresia Hofer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004 Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was c... Lees meer

In the Circle of White Stones

Gillian G Tan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their y... Lees meer

Lijiang Stories

Emily Chao

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• 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, rel... Lees meer

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

Justin M Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570 Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Ha... Lees meer

Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands

Koen Wellens

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppressio... Lees meer

Mapping Shangrila

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
• Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023 In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila--a place that previousl... Lees meer