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Lijiang Stories

Emily Chao, Stevan Harrell
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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 occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Emily Chao, Stevan Harrell EAN: 9780295992235 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Washington Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-05-15 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Politics and government

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      Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
      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 occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Emily Chao, Stevan Harrell EAN: 9780295992235 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Washington Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-05-15 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Politics and government

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      Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

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