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Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint,largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved forgenerations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, andreligious ritual.

Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection ofimperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture.Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records,it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan,and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate thecrucial question of how one can begin to write the history of aconquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combininganthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they digdeep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history ofChina’s southwestern region – one that recognizes theethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place inChina’s nation-building process.

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

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    Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
    Publication Date: 15/03/2013
    ISBN13: 9780774823685, 978-0774823685
    ISBN10: 0774823682

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , History

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    Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint,largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved forgenerations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, andreligious ritual.

    Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection ofimperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture.Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records,it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan,and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate thecrucial question of how one can begin to write the history of aconquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combininganthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they digdeep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history ofChina’s southwestern region – one that recognizes theethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place inChina’s nation-building process.

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