| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. When the past is present : 1. Recapturing the past: configuring a narrative identity from folklore -- 2. Reimagining the past: creating new narratives of Baijie -- 3. Displacing the past: Baijie's modern transformation -- Part II. Leaving "the country of women" : 4. From "representational violence" to construction of a harmonious mosuo land -- 5. Unrequited love for the remote country of women -- 6. The controversial writing career of a Mosuo woman -- Part III. In search of faith : 7. The localization of Shangri-La -- 8. Lost on the way to Shambhala: "Tibet, a soul knotted on a leather thong" -- 9. Full-fledged Shambhala: The Tibet Code. |
| Summary |
This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the People's Republic of China. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Minorities -- China.
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Minorities. |
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China. |
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China -- Ethnic relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yang, Yuqing. Mystifying China's southwest ethnic borderlands. ©2018 1498502970 9781498502979 (OCoLC)1002125672 |
| ISBN |
9781498502986 (electronic book) |
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1498502989 (electronic book) |
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9781498502979 |
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1498502970 |
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