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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Chinese StudiesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774823708
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chieftains into AncestorsDDC classification:
  • 305.800951/3
LOC classification:
  • DS730 -- .C45 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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