Looking for Chengdu : : A Woman's Adventures in China /

Looking for Chengdu : : A Woman's Adventures in China / / Hill Gates.

For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would mak...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Gates, Hill,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 maps, 21 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1. Facing China
  • DECEMBER 1987- JANUARY 1988: Guangzhou, Wuzhou, Liuzhou, Kunming, Yunnan, The Burma Road, Lijiang, Dali, Chengdu
  • 2. A Journey to the West
  • 3. Mr. Su's Hometown
  • 4. Eternal Spring
  • 5. Competing with Mrs. Bishop
  • SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 1988: Chengdu, West Sichuan, Jiu Zhai Gou, Hongyuan, Chengdu
  • 6. To Work
  • 7. Ambient Atmospheres
  • 8. Paying Calls
  • 9. R and R in a Van
  • 10. Yak Heaven
  • 11. In Golden Cow
  • 12. Getting It Wholesale
  • 13. Weighing the Harvest
  • 14. Finishing Touches
  • JUNE 1989- NOVEMBER 1991 Stanford, Chengdu, Xiamen, Cambridge, Mt. Pleasant, Nankang, Chengdu, Ming Shan, Chengdu
  • 15. Tiananmen in Chengdu
  • 16. Finding My Feet
  • 17. Roadwork
  • 18. Still Looking
  • NOVEMBER 1996 Shanghai, Chengdu
  • 19. Coda

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