China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom

China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain i...

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Weitere Verfasser: Barnett, A. Doak (MitwirkendeR), Binyan, Liu (MitwirkendeR), Blum, Susan D. (MitwirkendeR, HerausgeberIn), Dorfman, Diane (MitwirkendeR), Duara, Prasenjit (MitwirkendeR), Erbaugh, Mary S. (MitwirkendeR), Friedman, Edward (MitwirkendeR), Gil, Vincent E. (MitwirkendeR), Gladney, Dru C. (MitwirkendeR), Jensen, Lionel M. (MitwirkendeR, HerausgeberIn), Jones, Andrew F. (MitwirkendeR), Karchmer, Eric (MitwirkendeR), Liu, Dalin (MitwirkendeR), Lun Ng, Man (MitwirkendeR), Ramsey, S. Robert (MitwirkendeR), Solinger, Dorothy J. (MitwirkendeR), Tyson, Ann (MitwirkendeR), Tyson, James (MitwirkendeR), White, Sydney D. (MitwirkendeR)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2002]
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Zusammenfassung:China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic reports focuses on the everyday, the particular, the local, and the puzzling. Together with contextualizing introductions, the readings provide students with a compelling look at some little-known but significant aspects of China from the past decade; for those already familiar with China, they furnish an assortment of uncommon viewpoints in a single, convenient volume.Foreword by Prasenjit DuaraContributors: A. Doak Barnett, Susan D. Blum, Diane Dorfman, Mary S. Erbaugh, Edward Friedman, Vincent E. Gil, Dru Gladney, Erwin J. Haeberle, Lionel M. Jensen, Andrew F. Jones, Eric Ivan Karchmer, Liu Binyan, Dalin Liu, Man Lun Ng, S. Robert Ramsey, Dorothy J. Solinger, Ann Tyson, James Tyson, Sydney White, David Yen-ho Wu, Li Ping Zhou
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ISBN:9780824861834
DOI:10.1515/9780824861834