Dislocating China

Dislocating China: reflections on Muslims, minorities, and other subaltern subjects

by Gladney, Dru C.

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Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han groups as marginalized minorities. Dru C. Gladney challenges this simplistic view, arguing instead that the very oppositions of majority and minority, primitive and modern, are historically constructed and are belied by examination of such disenfranchised groups as Muslims, minorities, or gendered others. Gladney locates China and Chinese culture not in some unchanging, essential "Chinese-ness," b…

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  • Full title :Dislocating China : reflections on Muslims, minorities, and other subaltern subjects / Dru C. Gladney.

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Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han groups as marginalized minorities. Dru C. Gladney challenges this simplistic view, arguing instead that the very oppositions of majority and minority, primitive and modern, are historically constructed and are belied by examination of such disenfranchised groups as Muslims, minorities, or gendered others. Gladney locates China and Chinese culture not in some unchanging, essential "Chinese-ness," but in the context of historical and contemporary multicultural complexity. He investigates how this complexity plays out among a variety of places and groups, examining representations of minorities and majorities in art, movies, and theme parks the invention of folklore and creation myths the role of pilgrimages in constructing local identities and the impact of globalization and economic reforms on non-Han groups such as the Muslim Hui. In the end, Gladney argues that just as peoples in the West have defined themselves against ethnic others, so too have the Chinese defined themselves against marginalized groups in their own society. -- Back cover.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2004.

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Notes

"First published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co. ... London."

The Physical Object

  • Description:xvii, 414 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0226297756, 9780226297750, 0226297764, 9780226297767
  • oclc:ocm52631337
  • LC Classification:DS731.M87
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8/00951

Table of Contents

Cultural nationalisms in contemporary China -- Mapping the Chinese nation -- Making, marking, and marketing identity -- Film and forecasting the nation -- Enmeshed civilizations -- Localization and transnational pilgrimages -- Dialogic identities -- Relational alterities -- Ethnogenesis or ethnogenocide? -- Cyber-separatism -- Educating China's others -- Subaltern perspectives on prosperity -- Gulf wars and displaced persons -- Bodily positions, social dispositions.

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Subjects

China Ethnic minorities Ethnicité -- Chine Ethnicity Ethnicity -- China Ethnische Identität Etnisch bewustzijn Etnische betrekkingen Islam -- Ethnic identity. -- China Islamieten Minderheitenpolitik Minorities -- China Muslim Muslims Muslims -- Ethnic identity Muslims -- Ethnic identity. -- China Nationale Minderheit Participatie Private law Religious minorities

Writers

Gladney, Dru C.

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