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Book SynopsisAn 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction / David Faure
1 Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: LanguageIdeology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong’s QhuabKev (Showing the Way) / Huang Shu-li
2 Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigaoin Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning
3 The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on theBorder of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang
4 Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, andAncestors / Lian Ruizhi
5 From Woman’s Fertility to Masculine Authority:The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan /Xie Xiaohui
6 The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of NativeSubjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / HeXi
7 The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor,Connect to the State / David Faure
8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production andSocial Reproduction / James Wilkerson
9 Gendering Ritual Community across the ChineseSouthwest Borderland / Ho Ts’ui-p’ing
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