Chieftains into ancestors imperial expansion and indigenous society in southwest China

Official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one c...

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Published inChieftains into ancestors
Main Authors Faure, David, He, Cuiping
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver [B.C.] UBC Press 2013
University of British Columbia Press
Edition1
SeriesContemporary Chinese studies
Subjects
Ancestor worship
Anthropology
Asia
China
China, Southwest
Cultural
Ethnic identity
Ethnology
Government relations
HISTORY
Minorities
SOCIAL SCIENCE
China, Southeast
China, Southwest
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Summary:Official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history � one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China's nation-building process.
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ISBN:0774823704
9780774823708
0774823682
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