Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Table vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: Language Ideology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong’s Qhuab Kev (Showing the Way) 22
8. Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic Minority Society 42
9. The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on the Border of Hunan and Guizhou 66
10. Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors 86
11. From Woman’s Fertility to Masculine Authority: The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan 111
12. The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of Native Subjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China 138
13. The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor, Connect to the State 171
14. The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production and Social Reproduction 187
15. Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland 206
16. Contributors 247
17. Index 249
18. Contemporary Chinese Studies 255