Title: Mystifying China's southwest ethnic borderlands : harmonious heterotopia /
Authors: Yang, Yuqing
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cultural pluralism China, Southwest Philosophy.; Public spaces China, Southwest Philosophy.; Minorities China, Southwest.; Minorities China.; Ethnic relations; Minorities; China, Southwest Ethnic relations.; China; Southwest China
Abstract: This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in Southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "Harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the People's Republic of China--back cover.
Contents: Part I. When the past is present : 1. Recapturing the past: configuring a narrative identity from folklore -- 2. Reimagining the past: creating new narratives of  Baijie -- 3. Displacing the past: Baijie's modern transformation -- Part II. Leaving "the country of women" : 4. From "representational violence" to construction of a harmonious mosuo land -- 5. Unrequited love for the remote country of women -- 6. The controversial writing career of a Mosuo woman -- Part III. In search of faith : 7. The localization of Shangri-La -- 8. Lost on the way to Shambhala: "Tibet, a soul knotted on a leather thong" -- 9. Full-fledged Shambhala: The Tibet Code.