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China Off Center

Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2002

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword. Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China

    xiii
    Prasenjit Duara
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    Preface

    xvii
    Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen
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    Acknowledgments

    xxi
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    Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom

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    Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen
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  • Part I. The Center and the Noncenter
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    2. How Much of China is Ruled by Beijing?

    23
    Liu Binyan
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    3. Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism

    31
    Edward Friedman
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    4. The Languages of China

    45
    S. Robert Ramsey
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  • Part II. Geographic Margins
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    5. Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang

    71
    A. Doak Barnett
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    6. Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community

    106
    Dru C. Gladney
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    7. Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin

    131
    Sydney D. White
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    8. Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming

    148
    Susan D. Blum
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    9. The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities

    167
    David Yen-Ho Wu
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    10. The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise

    185
    Mary S. Erbaugh
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  • Part III. Social and Cultural Margins
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    11.Sexual Behavior in Modern China

    221
    Dalin Liu, Man Lun Ng and Li Ping Zhou
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    12. The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality

    238
    Vincent E. Gil
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    13. “The Moon Reflecting The Sunlight”: The Village Woman

    249
    James Tyson and Ann Tyson
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    14. The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship

    273
    Dorothy J. Solinger
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    15. The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China

    291
    Andrew F. Jones
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    16. Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China

    311
    Eric Karchmer
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    17. The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China

    323
    Diane Dorfman
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    Afterword: Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World

    341
    Lionel M. Jensen
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    Notes

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    Bibliography

    365
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    Contributors

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    Index

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