Yuqing Yang

Mystifying China's Southwest Ethnic Borderlands

Harmonious Heterotopia

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781498502979
• ISBN-10: 1498502970
• Artikelnr.: 49011822

Autorenporträt

By Yuqing Yang

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: When the Past is Present: Creating a Path to the Ancient Kingdom of
Nanzhao Chapter 1: Recapturing the Past: Configuring a Narrative Identity
from Folklore Chapter 2: Reimagining the Past: Creating New Narratives of
Baijie Chapter 3: Displacing the Past: Baijie's Modern Transformation Part
II: Leaving "the Country of Women": A Remote Eden Chapter 4: From
"Representational Violence" to the Construction of a Harmonious Mosuo Land
Chapter 5: Unrequited Love for the Remote Country of Women Chapter 6: The
Controversial Writing Career of a Mosuo Woman Part III: In Search of Faith:
The Indigenization of the Shangri-La and Shambhala Myths Chapter 7: The
Localization of Shangri-La Chapter 8: Lost on the Way to Shambhala: "Tibet,
a Soul Knotted on a Leather Thong" Chapter 9: Fully-Fledged Shambhala: The
Tibet Code