Contesting the Yellow Dragon : : ethnicity, religion, and the state in the Sino-Tibetan borderland / / by Xiaofei Kang and Donald S. Sutton.
Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Song...
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| Superior document: | Religion in Chinese Societies, Volume 10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion in Chinese societies ;
Volume 10. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (505 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures and Photographs
- Abbreviations
- Note on Ming shilu and Qing shilu
- Note on Tibetan Terms
- Introduction
- Garrison City in the Ming: Indigenes and the State in Greater Songpan
- Qing Songpan: Recovery, Over-extension and Disaster
- Guns, Gold, Gown, and Poppy: Ethnic Frontier in a Failing Republic
- Sharing a Sacred Center: Conch Mountain of the East, Yellow Dragon, and Chinese and Tibetan Culture
- Songpan, the State and Social Revolution, 1950–78
- Opening Up the Borderland I: The Politics of Tourist Development and Environmental Protection
- Opening Up the Borderland II: Ethnicity for Tourists
- Contesting the Yellow Dragon in the Age of Reform: Local Initiatives and Responses
- Ethnoreligion, Ethnic Identity and Regional Consciousness at Songpan
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Religious Activities in the Songpan Region
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Tibetan Glossary
- Index.