Afterword – China’s Ambiguous Borderland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24228749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Oakes (0000-0002-1176-3180) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 146 |
| Pages | 69-72 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives chinoises (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1021-9013 • E-ISSN: 2070-3449 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/16w68 |
| OpenAlex | W7219723433 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The first two books I read about southwest China, when I was a graduate student, were C.P. Fitzgerald’s The Tower of Five Glories (1941) and Francis Hsu’s Under the Ancestors Shadow (1948). Both were fascinating studies of agricultural society, culture, kinship systems, and everyday life in rural China. But they were also fascinating because both were ethnographies of the Minjia people of Dali, but only one (Fitzgerald’s) explicitly admitted to being so. This fact later led to criticism of H...
Borderlands · China · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China
Under the Ancestors’ Shadow
Minority Rules
Resourcing remoteness and the ‘post‐alteric’ imaginary in China
North-seeking from the global South
The "Ethnic Error" inUnder the Ancestors' Shadowand Dali Society in the Period of the Nationalist Government
Gender and Internal Orientalism in China
| Highly cited | No |
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