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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.
The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China
This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation as a province by the Yuan regime in 1276 did not disrupt Dali kingdom style political, social and religious institutions. It was the Ming state in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries through its institutions for military and civilian control which brought about profound changes and truly transformed local society into a province. In contrast to other studies which have portrayed Yunnan as a non-Han frontier region waiting to be colonised, this book, by focusing on changes in local society, casts off the idea of Yunnan as a border area far from civilisation.
Yunnan
The book portrays the mountainous southwestern Chinese region bordering Tibet to the north, Myanmar to the west, Laos and Vietnam to the south and the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi to the east. In five richly illustrated chapters it describes the extraordinarily diverse landscape, the history, customs and lifestyles of 26 different nationalities that call Yunnan home. Their religious beliefs, their agriculture and their future will be determined mainly by tourism and industrial development.
Yunnan
This guidebook provides readers with vital travel information about Yunnan and offers insights into the regions, history, religion, culture, food, art and architecture, and landscape
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Studies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.
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.
