Autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty in Southwestern China
Subtitle: the state turned upside down
By: by Chih-yu Shih.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Minorities -- China, Southwest; Poverty -- China, Southwest; China, Southwest -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The teleology of the state : top-down regional ethnic autonomy; title: Performing ethnicity : politics of representation in multi-ethnic Guilin; title: Silencing the poor : the statist-liberal incapacity in Western Hunan; title: The state as a borderline identity-settling the Jing ethnicity in Dongxing; title: Imagined genealogy : behind the cultural formation of Huishui's Buyi; title: Cement or excrement? Autonomous ecological thinking in Xiaoxi's poverty discourse; title: 3 + 1 + 1 = 1 : disempowerment in multi-ethnic autonomous Longsheng; title: Lost agency for change : the diasporic identity in Yizhou's Shui villages; title: Feeling poverty : on the same side of the poor in Baise's Zhuang villages; title: Riding the citizenship; title: Assimilation into Mulao consciousness : the rise of participatory rigor in Luocheng; title: Living with the state : multiplying ethnic Yao narratives in Jinxiu; title: Learning to be rational : the drive toward marketization in Fenghuang; title: Conclusion : from unity to harmony-progress or regression?