China's 'Tibetan' frontiers : sharing the contested ground / / by Beth Meriam.
This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching account of the changing social, political and organizational topography of western China. The seismic changes wrought across this region in recent history are seen through the lens of Trinde, a remote ‘autonomous’ county on the Tibetan pl...
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| Superior document: | Inner Asia book series ; v. 6 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inner Asia book series ;
no. 6. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Opening Vistas, Bordering Spaces
- I. Reclassified Societies
- II. Stressing Development
- III. Cultivating Nationalities
- IV. Civilizing Culture
- V. Empowering Locales
- VI. Other Modernities
- VII. Revisualizing Nationalities
- Conclusion: Common Ground
- Appendix One: Chronology of China’s Reform Era
- Appendix Two: Glossary of Principal Political Terms
- References
- Index.