Chieftains into Ancestors : Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China.
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- 9780774823708
- 305.800951/3
- DS730 -- .C45 2013eb
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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