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An Ecological History of Modern China
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295751719
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: University of Washington Press
How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilienceIs environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once...
Pure and True
The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749839
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui?China?s largest Muslim ethnic group?as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party?s great success...
Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295748191
Pub Date: December 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited...
Greening East Asia
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295747910
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
East Asia hosts a fifth of the world?s population and consumes over half the world?s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of worldwide...
The Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295745695
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest...
Fieldwork Connections
The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295986685
Pub Date: October 2007
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters...
Mapping Shangrila
Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295993584
Pub Date: June 2014
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila?a place that previously had existed only in fiction?had been identified...
Lijiang Stories
Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295992235
Pub Date: May 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
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...
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295991184
Pub Date: September 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although...
Transforming Patriarchy
Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295999821
Pub Date: November 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China?political, cultural, and economic?has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands...
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295999425
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan,...
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295981239
Pub Date: February 2002
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness...
In the Circle of White Stones
Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295999487
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk...
Communist Multiculturalism
Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
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CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295989099
Pub Date: October 2009
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups...
Mountain Patterns
The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780295979373
Pub Date: February 2000
Nestled against the Tibetan highlands in the remote mountains of Liangshan in southwest China, the land of the Nuosu people was until the 1950s beyond the easy reach of the Chinese government, and...
Ploughshare Village
Culture and Context in Taiwan
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295994192
Pub Date: November 2014
Imprint: University of Washington Press
This anthropological study of a workers? village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted...
An Ecological History of Modern China
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295751719
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Pure and True
The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295749839
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295748191
Pub Date: December 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Greening East Asia
The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295747910
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: University of Washington Press
The Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295745695
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Fieldwork Connections
The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295986685
Pub Date: October 2007
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Mapping Shangrila
Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295993584
Pub Date: June 2014
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Lijiang Stories
Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295992235
Pub Date: May 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295991184
Pub Date: September 2011
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Transforming Patriarchy
Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295999821
Pub Date: November 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295999425
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295981239
Pub Date: February 2002
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In the Circle of White Stones
Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295999487
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Communist Multiculturalism
Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
CA$44.00
ISBN: 9780295989099
Pub Date: October 2009
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Mountain Patterns
The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780295979373
Pub Date: February 2000
Ploughshare Village
Culture and Context in Taiwan
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295994192
Pub Date: November 2014
Imprint: University of Washington Press