Lijiang Stories

Lijiang Stories
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9780295804385
ISBN-13 : 0295804386
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Download or read book Lijiang Stories written by Emily Chao and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world. The vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent.


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