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Tracing China's journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine political tumults transforming into everyday lives, and fathom the depths of human drama amid China's frenetic momentum toward modernity. Highlighting complicity, Siu portrays how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals-laden with historical baggage-venture forward. But have they v.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Tracing Meaningful Life-Worlds
• 1. Reflections on Historical Anthropology
• 2. Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China
• pt. 2 Moving Targets
• 3. Images: Prologue to Agents and Victims in South China
• 4. China's Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage
• pt. 3 Structuring and Human Agency
• 5. Socialist Peddlers and Princes in a Chinese Market Town
• 6. Recycling Rituals: Politics and Popular Culture in Contemporary Rural China
• 7. Reconstituting Dowry and Brideprice in South China
• pt. 4 Culturing Power
• 8. Recycling Tradition: Culture, History, and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum Festivals of South China
• 9. Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan: Ethnicity in the Pearl River Delta of South China
• 10. Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in South China
• pt. 5 History between the Lines
• 11. Where Were the Women? Rethinking Marriage Resistance and Regional Culture in South China
• 12. Social Responsibility and Self-Expression: Introduction to Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals, and the State
• pt. 6 Place-Making: Locality and Translocality
• 13. Subverting Lineage Power: Local Bosses and Territorial Control in the 1940s
• 14. Cultural Landscape of Luxury Housing in South China: A Regional History

• 15. Positioning "Hong Kongers" and "New Immigrants"
• 16. Grounding Displacement: Uncivil Urban Spaces in Post-Reform South China
• pt. 7 Historical Global and the Asian Postmodern
• 17. Hong Kong: Cultural Kaleidoscope on a World Landscape
• 18. Women of Influence: Gendered Charisma
• 19. Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong.

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Author/Creator:

Siu, Helen F.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Tracing China: a forty-year ethnographic journey [by Siu, H.F.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Tracing China : A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey [by Siu, H.F.] (Aberdeen : Hong Kong University Press,c2016 — ISBN 9789888083732)

Subjects:

China, Southeast — Civilization

Hong Kong (China) — Civilization

Ethnology — China, Southeast

Ethnology — China — Hong Kong

Rural-urban relations — China, Southeast

Rural-urban relations — China — Hong Kong

General Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS793.S644 S58 2016

ISBNs:

9789888313396
9888313398
9789888083732 [Invalid]
9888083732 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

961059369

Other Control Numbers:

1286502 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13221877