China Off Center : : Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom / / ed. by Lionel M. Jensen, Susan D. Blum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Barnett, A. Doak,; Binyan, Liu,; Blum, Susan D.,; Dorfman, Diane,; Duara, Prasenjit,; Erbaugh, Mary S.,; Friedman, Edward,; Gil, Vincent E.,; Gladney, Dru C.,; Jensen, Lionel M.,; Jones, Andrew F.,; Karchmer, Eric,; Liu, Dalin,; Lun Ng, Man,; Ramsey, S. Robert,; Solinger, Dorothy J.,; Tyson, Ann,; Tyson, James,; White, Sydney D.,; Yen-Ho Wu, David,; Zhou, Li Ping,
• HerausgeberIn: Blum, Susan D.,; Jensen, Lionel M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword. Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom --; Part I. The Center and the Noncenter --; 2. How Much of China is Ruled by Beijing? --; 3. Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism --; 4. The Languages of China --; Part II. Geographic Margins --; 5. Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang --; 6. Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community --; 7. Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin --; 8. Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming --; 9. The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities --; 10. The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise --; Part III. Social and Cultural Margins --; 11.Sexual Behavior in Modern China --; 12. The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality --; 13. "The Moon Reflecting The Sunlight": The Village Woman --; 14. The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship --; 15. The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China --; 16. Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China --; 17. The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China --; Afterword: Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824861834; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824861834
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lionel M. Jensen, Susan D. Blum.

China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic reports focuses on the everyday, the particular, the local, and the puzzling. Together with contextualizing introductions, the readings provide students with a compelling look at some little-known but significant aspects of China from the past decade; for those already familiar with China, they furnish an assortment of uncommon viewpoints in a single, convenient volume.Foreword by Prasenjit DuaraContributors: A. Doak Barnett, Susan D. Blum, Diane Dorfman, Mary S. Erbaugh, Edward Friedman, Vincent E. Gil, Dru Gladney, Erwin J. Haeberle, Lionel M. Jensen, Andrew F. Jones, Eric Ivan Karchmer, Liu Binyan, Dalin Liu, Man Lun Ng, S. Robert Ramsey, Dorothy J. Solinger, Ann Tyson, James Tyson, Sydney White, David Yen-ho Wu, Li Ping Zhou.