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Chieftains into Ancestors : Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China.

Faure, David.

Chieftains into Ancestors : Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages) - Contemporary Chinese Studies . - Contemporary Chinese Studies .

Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite -- 2 Chief, God, or National Hero? -- 3 The Venerable Flying Mountain -- 4 Surviving Conquest in Dali -- 5 From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority -- 6 The Past Tells It Differently -- 7 The Tusi That Never Was -- 8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom -- 9 Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland -- Contributors -- Index.

An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China's minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.

9780774823708


Ethnology -- China, Southwest.
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Government relations.
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Ethnic identity.
Ancestor worship -- China, Southwest.
China, Southwest -- History.


Electronic books.

DS730 -- .C45 2013eb

305.800951/3

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