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China - Yunnan Province
Located in southwest China, Yunnan Province is the centre of a growing focus on ecotourism. This guide covers Yunnan's many attractions including the provincial capital of Kunming, legendary Yangtze and Mekong rivers, Buddhist stupas and Tibetan border monasteries.
Asian Borderlands
With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
The Kingdom of Women
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none.
CAMPS AND TRAILS IN CHINA
"Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China" by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews is a captivating journey into the heart of uncharted China during the early 20th century. Join this dynamic couple on a thrilling exploration of remote regions, where each page unfolds a tapestry of discovery, adventure, and the thrill of the unknown. Roy Chapman Andrews, a distinguished explorer, and Yvette Borup Andrews, a seasoned adventurer, share their firsthand experiences of traversing the landscapes, encountering diverse cultures, and engaging in exhilarating sporting pursuits. The narrative is a seamless blend of scientific exploration a...
Earthbound China
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The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China
This book examines how the Ming state in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. By focusing on changes in local society, the book casts off the idea of Yunnan as a border area far from civilisation.
Earthbound China
This is volume III of six in a series on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1949, Study of Rural Economy in Yunnan.
Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911)
The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important “export” product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.
State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest
Twentieth century China has seen local societies undergo unprecedented transformations accompanied by a remarkable continuity in state practice. In this path-breaking study of two ethnically different communities, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patrilineal Han, in northwest Yunnan province, the author traces cultural change from a historical perspective in relation to the ecological environment and political systems. The treatment of state penetration into local society challenges the conventional binary narratives of state-society and Han/non-Han relations. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book enriches the anthropology of China by framing ethnicity issues in terms of local politics and inter-relationships between levels of government, and at the same time extends the analytical perimeter of the study of the Chinese state to the national periphery.
Yunnan-A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia
The Chinese Government's five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for 'opening the country' to southeast Asia and south Asia. Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia traces the dynamic process which has led to this policy goal, a process through which Yunnan is being repositioned from a southwestern periphery of the People's Republic of China to a 'bridgehead' between China and its regional neighbours. It shows how this has been expressed in ideas and policy frameworks, involvement in regional institutions, infrastructure development, and changing trade and investment flows, from the 1980s to the ...
