Unity and diversity: local cultures and identities in China
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Veröffentlicht: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press ©1996
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This book examines the evolution of the local identity in China from historical times to the present day. It traces the expression of local identity in religion and myth, in the construction of the provincial character, in the growth of cities, in literature, in economic development and in the expansion of the Chinese state. It argues that the growth of a local identity was part and parcel of the evolution of a national character. But, it notes also that the transforming of the local identity with the extension of the state has often come with a sense of nostalgia, a yearning for a world that has perhaps never been
Introduction : what does the Chinese person identify with? / Tao Tao Liu and David Faure -- 1. Provinces, city gods and salt merchants : provincial identity in Ming and Qing Dynasty Hangzhou / Susanna Thornton -- 2. Becoming Cantonese, the Ming Dynasty transition / David Faure -- 3. Literary, ethnic or territorial? : definitions of Guangdong culture in the late Qing and the early Republic / May-bo Ching -- 4. Xinjiang : in search of an identity / Laura Newby -- 5. The kings who could fly without their heads : "local" culture in China and the case of the Hmong / Nicholas Tapp -- 6. The image and identity of the Shanghainese / Xiong Yuezhi -- 7. Creating a Shanghai identity : late Qing courtesan handbooks and the formation of the new citizen / Catherine Yeh -- 8. Women, work and identity : a study of two 1930s novels on the opera singer / Mau-sang Ng -- 9. Local identity in Chinese fiction and fiction of the native soil : "Xiangtu Wenxue" / Tao Tao Liu -- 10. Local religion and village identity / Stephan Feuchtwang -- 11. Remade in Hong Kong : weaving into the Chinese cultural tapestry / Helen F. Siu -- Glossary -- Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 212 pages)
ISBN:9622094023
9789622094024
9789882203006
9882203000

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