Lijiang Stories – Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform–Era China : Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
by
Emily Chao
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
ISBN-10
0295992239
ISBN-13
9780295992235
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Imprint
University of Washington Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2013
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
366 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 16.10 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
AsiaRegional studiesRegional / International studiesAnthropology
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Reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are pre-eminent
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.
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