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Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China(Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)

Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China(Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)


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About the Book

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.

About the Author :
Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

Review :
"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" "Chao's ethnographic approach digs beneath the surface to uncover the underlying power of state and capital and to illustrate everyday life as an outcome of conflicts and compromises between individuals and structural forces. . . . Chao presents a living picture of Lijiang in which individuals are brought into the orbit of development driven by state and private investors." -- Xiaobo Su "China Journal" "Lijiang Stories is a well-informed page-turner, an ethnographic monograph in the classical sense of the word. Ethnographically rich and theoretically engaging....[A] wonderful case for any comparison of neoliberal policies and their effects today....[W]onderfully vivid...[A] pleasurable lecture for both specialists and a larger public." --Carolina Ivanescu "Social Anthropology" "Though not a typical ethnography, Lijiang Stories is informed by a good deal of ethnographic research. Chao's interpretations of her stories illuminate the shifting meanings of ethnicity, gender, class and national identity in an era of profound social change. . . . Lijiang Stories is a valuable addition to the growing scholarship on Chinese minorities in the post-socialist era." --Susan K. McCarthy "Pacific Affairs"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780295804385
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
  • ISBN-10: 0295804386
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Sub Title: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China


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