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The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China
Erik Mueggler
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Paperback. This text examines contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine (1958-1960) to the 1990s. Stories from this period described as "the age of ghosts", convey aspects of pain, loss, and social upheaval and give an insight into the lives of the people who lived through them. Num Pages: 375 pages, 15 line illustrations, 3 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; GTB; HBG; HBLW3; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534. Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China. 375 pages, 15 line illustrations, 1 map, 3 tables. This text examines contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine (1958-1960) to the 1990s. Stories from this period described as "the age of ghosts", convey aspects of pain, loss, and social upheaval and give an insight into the lives of the people who lived through them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; GTB; HBG; HBLW3; JHMC; JHMP. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 25. Weight: 530.
In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continuing through the 1990s, as "the age of wild ghosts." Their stories of this age converge on a dream of community--a bad dream, embodied in the life, death, and reawakening of a single institution: a rotating headman-ship system that expired violently under the Maoist regime. Displaying a sensitive ... Read more
In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continuing through the 1990s, as "the age of wild ghosts." Their stories of this age converge on a dream of community--a bad dream, embodied in the life, death, and reawakening of a single institution: a rotating headman-ship system that expired violently under the Maoist regime. Displaying a sensitive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
Number of Pages
375
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520226319
SKU
V9780520226319
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About Erik Mueggler
Erik Mueggler is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
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