A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions without husbands or fathers.
In this ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of south-west China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describes the present age, beginning with the Great Lea Famine of 1958-1960 and…
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Contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine of the 1950s to the 1990s is traced in this text. This era saw great changes in the way that communities were run, including the reintroduction of the headman-ship system.
This work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China. It explores the reasons why the Singaporean Chinese continue to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they reproduce Chinese culture through…