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Title China off center : mapping the margins of the middle kingdom / edited by Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description xxii, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents Foreword: Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China / Prasenjit Duara -- Preface / Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen -- 1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom / Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen -- 2. How Much of China Is Ruled by Beijing? / Liu Binyan -- 3. Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism / Edward Friedman -- 4. The Languages of China / S. Robert Ramsey -- 5. Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang / A. Doak Barnett -- 6. Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community / Dru C. Gladney -- 7. Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin / Sydney D. White -- 8. Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming / Susan D. Blum -- 9. The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities / David Yen-Ho Wu -- 10. The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise / Mary S. Erbaugh -- 11. Sexual Behavior in Modern China / Dalin Liu, Man Lun Ng, Li Ping Zhou and Erwin J. Haeberle -- 12. The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality / Vincent E. Gil -- 13. "The Moon Reflecting the Sunlight": The Village Woman / James Tyson and Ann Tyson -- 14. The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 15. The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China / Andrew F. Jones -- 16. Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China / Eric Karchmer -- 17. The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China / Diane Dorfman -- Afterword: Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World / Lionel M. Jensen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-385) and index
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178 -- 1976-
China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024185
Author Blum, Susan Debra.
Jensen, Lionel M.
LC no. 2002002101
ISBN 0824823354 alkaline paper
0824825772 paperback alkaline paper
9780824823351 alkaline paper
9780824825775 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom