Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities and Other Sub-altern Subjects - Couverture rigide

Gladney, Dru C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1850653240 ISBN 13 : 9781850653240

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This text examines representations of social "minorities" and "majorities" in art and public media, their display in popular theme parks, the invention of "folklore" and creation myths, the role of pilgrimage in constructing local identities, and the impact of globalization and economic reforms on different subaltern communities, in the process illuminating the complexity and diversity of Chinese society.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han groups as marginalized minorities. Dru C. Gladney challenges this simplistic view, arguing instead that the very oppositions of majority and minority, primitive and modern, are historically constructed and are belied by examination of such disenfranchised groups as Muslims, minorities, or gendered others. Gladney locates China and Chinese culture not in some unchanging, essential "Chinese-ness", but in the context of historical and contemporary multicultural complexity. He investigates how this complexity plays out among a variety of places and groups, examining representations of minorities and majorities in art, movies, and theme parks; the invention of folklore and creation myths; the role of pilgrimages in constructing local identities; and the impact of globalization and economic reforms on non-Han groups such as the Muslim Hui. In the end, Gladney argues that just as peoples in the West have defined themselves against ethnic others, so too have the Chinese defined themselves against marginalized groups in their own society.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dru C. Gladney is a professor of Asian studies and anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic, second edition, and Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality and the editor of Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1850653240
• ISBN 13: 9781850653240
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 421
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