Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures, Tables and Diagrams ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction. Modalities of Change: The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia 1
6. People’s Republic of China
7. Chapter 1 The House, the State and Change: The Modernity of Sichuan RGyalrong Tibetans 21
8. Chapter 2 From Kinship to State and Back Again: Lineage and History in a Qiang Village 37
9. Chapter 3 Embroidery Speaks: What Does Miao Embroidery Tell Us? 62
10. Chapter 4 Tensions between Romantic Love and Marriage: Performing ‘Miao Cultural Individuality’ in an Upland Miao Love-Song 93
11. Chapter 5 Modalities of the One-Child Policy among Urban Migrants in China 117
12. Chapter 6 The ‘Culture’ of World Cultural Heritage 134
13. Taiwan and Vietnam
14. Chapter 7 ‘Amis Hip-Hop’: The Bodily Expressions of Contemporary Young Amis in Taiwan 151
15. Chapter 8 Contesting Memory: The Shifting Power of Narration in Contemporary Paiwan Contexts 180
16. Chapter 9 Ethnicity as Strategy: Taiwan State Policies and the Thao 197
17. Chapter 10 On the ‘Third Morning’: The Continuity of Life from Past to Present among the Nung of Northern Vietnam 209
18. Afterword: Performance as a Mechanism for Social Change 225
19. Notes on Contributors 241
20. Index 245