Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
(Part of the Studies on Ethnic Groups in China Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0295992239
ISBN13:9780295992235
Release Date:May 2013
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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