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Regional Culture and Social Change : A Study of Miao-Inhabited Areas of Southwest China
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ISBN: 9789811989834 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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This book explores Shimenkan—a Miao-inhabited area in Weining County, China—and its rural society from a comprehensive and long-term perspective, drawing on research conducted by the author in the course of ten years. Located in the northwest of Weining County in Guizhou Province, Shimenkan is a multiethnic area, where, e.g., the Hans, Miaos, Yis, Huis, and Buyis live. Until the early twentieth century, it was a small mountain village; the introduction of Christianity led to significant cultural and social changes in this area. Focusing on China in the twentieth century, the book addresses the traditional culture of the Miao people, the popularity of Christianity in early modern times, the management and control by the government, the socialist reform in the period of the People’s Republic of China, and the changes following the reform and opening-up in recent years. Covering a century’s worth of history, it discusses the major historical events in Northeastern Yunnan and Northwestern Guizhou around Shimenkan and analyzes local social structures, religions, ideologies, customs, and ethnic psychologies, making it a valuable addition to the study of regional social history. The book draws on archives, literature reviews, and field surveys and pursues a multi-disciplinary approach combining history, anthropology, and other disciplines. It offers a valuable resource for researchers in history, religion, and ethnology, as well as readers interested in the spread of Christianity in the Miao-inhabited areas of southwestern China.


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Small works
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ISBN: 0801462789 0801462770 0801449685 9780801462771 9780801449680 9780801462788 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca [N.Y.]

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How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, John A. Donaldson draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Chinese provinces-Yunnan and Guizhou-that are exceptions to the purported relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. In Yunnan, an outward-oriented developmental state, one that focuses on large-scale, urban development, has largely failed to reduce poverty, even though it succeeded in stimulating economic growth. Provincial policy shaped roads, tourism, and mining in ways that often precluded participation by poor people. By contrast, Guizhou is a micro-oriented state, one that promotes small-scale, low-skill economic opportunities-and so reduces poverty despite slow economic growth. It is no coincidence that this Guizhou approach parallels the ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou's leader, helped establish the micro-oriented state in the province. Donaldson's conclusions have implications for our understanding of development and poverty reduction, economic change in China, and the thinking behind China's policy decisions.


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Empire and identity in Guizhou : local resistance to Qing expansion
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ISBN: 0295804815 0295993278 9780295804811 9780295993263 029599326X 9780295993270 Year: 2013 Publisher: University of Washington Press

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This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities� attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state�s quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices�chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry�that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power.

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Bouyei (Chinese people) --- History --- Guizhou Sheng (China) --- China --- Ethnic relations --- Bo-i (Chinese people) --- Bố Y (Chinese people) --- Buman (Chinese people) --- Bui (Chinese people) --- Buyayi (Chinese people) --- Buyei (Chinese people) --- Buyi (Chinese people) --- Buyui (Chinese people) --- Buzhong (Chinese people) --- Chongjia (Chinese people) --- Chʻung chia (Chinese people) --- Chungchia (Chinese people) --- Dioi (Chinese people) --- Kuei (Chinese people) --- Kui (Chinese people) --- Po-ai (Chinese people) --- Pu-i (Chinese people) --- Pu-i (Tribe) --- Pu-ji (Chinese people) --- Pu-jui (Chinese people) --- Pu Y (Chinese people) --- Pu-yi (Chinese people) --- Pui (Chinese people) --- Pujai (Chinese people) --- Puyi (Chinese people) --- Puyoi (Chinese people) --- Quinjiang (Chinese people) --- Shuihu (Chinese people) --- Zhongjia (Chinese people) --- Ethnology --- Tai (Southeast Asian people) --- Kweichau (China) --- Kwei-chow (China : Province) --- Kuei-chou sheng (China) --- Kweichow (China : Province) --- Kishū-shō (China) --- Kuei-chou (China : Province) --- Kweichow Province (China) --- Kweichow, China (Province) --- Gui Zhou (China : Province) --- Kuei-chou sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Guizhousheng (China) --- 贵州省 (China) --- Chủng chá (Chinese people) --- Pố Dí (Chinese people) --- Pủ Dí (Chinese people) --- Trọng gia (Chinese people) --- Trung gia (Chinese people) --- Tu Dí (Chinese people) --- Tu Dìu (Chinese people) --- Tu Dín (Chinese people) --- Tu Dính (Chinese people) --- S04/0680 --- S04/0454 --- S11/1230 --- China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 --- China: History--Gazetteers: Guizhou --- China: Social sciences--Others --- Asian history

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