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.)

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 i...

Table of Contents

• 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