China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom 9780824861834
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decent
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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword. Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom
Part I. The Center and the Noncenter
2. How Much of China is Ruled by Beijing?
3. Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism
4. The Languages of China
Part II. Geographic Margins
5. Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang
6. Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community
7. Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin
8. Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming
9. The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities
10. The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
Part III. Social and Cultural Margins
11.Sexual Behavior in Modern China
12. The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality
13. “The Moon Reflecting The Sunlight”: The Village Woman
14. The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship
15. The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China
16. Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China
17. The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China
Afterword: Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
