China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) - Softcover

Harwood, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295993383 ISBN 13: 9780295993386

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2013

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[Q]uite usable for introducing undergraduates to concepts of political ecology and critical development studies, as well as a suite of important social issues in contemporary China including minzu politics, the discussion of quality (suzhi), rural-urban and geographical disparities, and migration....[It] is a valuable contribution and will be of particular interest for use in the classroom. -- Emily T. Yeh * China Quarterly, The * Harwood brings up questions that are applicable to situations beyond the communities in Gongshan, such as conservation of minority cultures and livelihoods against the background of globalization, as well as structured inequalities in the process of urbanization and market-oriented economic development. * Choice *

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection of medicinal plants from surrounding forests, and small-scale logging to sustain their household economies. China's New Socialist Countryside explores how compulsory education, conservation programs, migration for work, and the expansion of social and economic infrastructure are not only transforming livelihoods, but also intensifying the Chinese Party-state's capacity to integrate ethnic minorities into its political fabric and the national industrial economy.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0295993383
• ISBN 13: 9780295993386
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248