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Book SynopsisThis book explores the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam. The chapters question to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways, in the interests of their own further developments.
Table of Contents Preface
James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin
Introduction
James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin
Part I: People’s Republic of China
Chapter 1. The house, the state and change: the modernity of Sichuan Gyalrong Tibetans
Ting-yu Wang
Chapter 2. From kinship to state and back again: lineage and history in a Qiang village
Liu Biyun
Chapter 3. Embroidery speaks: what does Miao embroidery tell us?
Ho Zhaohua
Chapter 4. Tensions between romantic love and marriage: performing ‘Miao cultural individuality’ in an upland Miao love song
Chien Mei-ling
Chapter 5. Modalities of the one-child policy among urban migrants in China
Chang Kuei-min
Chapter 6. The culture of World Cultural Heritage
Eveline Bingaman
Part II: Taiwan and Vietnam
Chapter 7. ‘Amis hip hop’: the bodily expressions of contemporary young Amis in Taiwan
Futuru C. L. Tsai
Chapter 8. Contesting memory: the shifting power of narration in contemporary Paiwan contexts
Li-Ju Hong
Chapter 9. Ethnicity as strategy: Taiwan state policies and the Thao
Yayoi Mitsuda
Chapter 10. On the ‘third morning’: the continuity of life from past to present among the Nung of northern Vietnam
N. Jenny Hsu
Afterword: Performance as a mechanism for social change
James Wilkerson
