Autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty in Southwestern China : the state turned upside down / Chih-yu Shih.

This book examines the three different channels by which the Chinese state reaches out to ethnic communities: autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shi, Zhiyu, 1958-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Minorities > China, Southwest. Poverty > China, Southwest. Political science & theory > China. HISTORY. Politics and Government. Minorities Politics and government Poverty China, Southwest > Politics and government. Southwest China
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Table of Contents:

The teleology of the state : top-down regional ethnic autonomy
Performing ethnicity : politics of representation in multi-ethnic Guilin
Silencing the poor : the statist-liberal incapacity in Western Hunan
The state as a borderline identity-distancing the Jing ethnicity from Vietnam
Imagined genealogy : behind the cultural formation of Huishui's Buyi nationality
Cement or excrement? Autonomous ecological thinking in Xiaoxi's poverty discourse
3 + 1 + 1 = 1 : disempowerment in multi-ethnic autonomous Longsheng
Lost agency for change : the diasporic identity in Yizhou's Shui villages
Feeling poverty : on the same side of the poor in Baise's Zhuang villages
Assimilation into Mulao consciousness : the rise of participatory rigor in Luocheng
Living with the state : multiplying ethnic Yao narratives in Jinxiu
Learning to be rational : peasants' responses to marketization in Fenghuang
Conclusion : from unity to harmony-progress or regression?

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