In one's own shadow : an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China

In one's own shadow : an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China / Xin Liu.

China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. It analyzes the changes and continuities marking the recent history of northwestern China and h...

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Main Author: Liu, Xin, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Rural development > China > Shaanxi Sheng.
Social change > China > Shaanxi Sheng.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Manners and customs
Rural conditions
Rural development
Social change
Vernieuwing.
Sociale verandering.
Agrarische maatschappij.
Etnografie.
Shaanxi Sheng (China) > Rural conditions.
Shaanxi Sheng (China) > Social life and customs.
China > Shaanxi Sheng
Shaanxi (provincie)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes on the Text; 1. Exotic Familiarity; 2. Resisting Ideology; 3. Marriage as a Mirror of Change; 4. Meaning and Eating; 5. The Practice of Everyday Life; 6. The Pliable Emotions; 7. Immoral Politics; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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