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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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Introduction / 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

Contributors

Index

Chieftains into Ancestors Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China Contemporary Chinese Studies

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      Publisher: MN - University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780774823692, 978-0774823692
      ISBN10: 0774823690

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction / 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

      Contributors

      Index

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