{"product_id":"minority-rules-the-miao-and-the-feminine-in-chinas-cultural-politics-body-commodity-text-9780822324447","title":"Minority Rules The Miao and the Feminine in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMinority Rules\u003c\/i\u003e is breathtaking. Combining sophisticated cultural analysis with sharp attention to political economy, Schein illuminates not only the way the Miao have been constructed historically but how they shape their own identities through cultural performances, whether in state theater or for tourists.”—Lila Abu-Lughod, author of \u003ci\u003eVeiled Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWriting Women’s Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A highly readable exploration of the cultural politics of reform-era China that deserves a broad readership among anthropologists, historians, and those in cultural studies.”—Ann Anagnost, author of \u003ci\u003eNational Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations \u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e  1 Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part I. Nation \/ Representation \u003cbr\u003e 2 Of Origins and Ethnonyms Contested Histories, Productive Ethnologies \u003cbr\u003e 3 Making Minzu: The State, the Category, and the Work \u003cbr\u003e 4 Internal Orientalism: Gender and the Popularization of China's Others \u003cbr\u003e 5 Reconfiguring the Dominant \u003cbr\u003e Part II. Identity and Cultural Struggle \u003cbr\u003e 6 Songs for Sale: Spectacle from the Mao to Market \u003cbr\u003e 7 Scribes, Sartorial Acts, and the State: Calling Culture Back \u003cbr\u003e 8 Displacing Subalternity: The Mobile Other \u003cbr\u003e 9 Performances of Minzu Modernity \u003cbr\u003e 10 Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406024548695,"sku":"9780822324447","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822324447.jpg?v=1730494282","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minority-rules-the-miao-and-the-feminine-in-chinas-cultural-politics-body-commodity-text-9780822324447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}