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Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
Louisa Schein
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Description for Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
Paperback. Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China’s postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with ... Read more
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China’s postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Series
Body, Commodity, Text
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822324447
SKU
V9780822324447
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About Louisa Schein
Louisa Schein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
Reviews for Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
“Minority Rules is breathtaking. Combining sophisticated cultural analysis with sharp attention to political economy, Schein illuminates not only the way the Miao have been constructed historically but how they shape their own identities through cultural performances, whether in state theater or for tourists.”—Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments and Writing Women’s Worlds “A highly readable exploration of the cultural politics ... Read more