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Author Kang, Xiaofei, Ph.D

Title Contesting the Yellow Dragon : ethnicity, religion, and the state in the Sino-Tibetan borderland / by Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Religion in Chinese societies ; volume 10
Brill E-Books
Religion in Chinese societies ; 10.
Contents Note on Ming Shilu and Qing Shilu -- Note on Tibetan terms -- Garrison city in the Ming : Indigenes and the state in greater Songpan -- Qing Songpan : recovery, over-extension and disaster -- Guns, gold, gown, and poppy : ethnic frontier in a failing republic -- Sharing a sacred center : Conch Mountain of the East, Yellow Dragon, and Chinese and Tibetan culture -- Songpan, the state and social revolution, 1950-78 -- Opening up the borderland I : the politics of tourist development and environmental protection -- Opening up the borderland II : ethnicity for tourists -- Contesting the Yellow Dragon in the age of reform : local initiatives and responses -- Ethnoreligion, ethnic identity and regional consciousness at Songpan -- Appendix: Festivals -- Tibetan glossary
Summary "This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Religion and politics -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History
Social change -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History
Borderlands -- China -- History
Borderlands -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Borderlands
Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
International relations
Politics and government
Religion and politics
Social change
SUBJECT Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects -- History
Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Politics and government
Jin'an (Sichuan Sheng, China) -- History
Huanglong (Sichuan Sheng, China) -- History
China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China
Subject China
China -- Huanglong (Sichuan Sheng)
China -- Jin'an (Sichuan Sheng)
China -- Sichuan Sheng
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sutton, Donald
LC no. 2016013892
ISBN 9789004319233
9004319239