Modalities of change : the interface of tradition and modernity in East Asia / James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin, editors.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Berghahn Books, 2013
Description
x, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The house, the state and change : the modernity of Sichuan rGyalrong Tibetans / Wang Ting-yu
  • From kinship to state and back again : lineage and history in a Qiang village / Liu Biyun
  • Embroidery speaks : what does Miao embroidery tell us? / Ho Zhaohua
  • Tensions between romantic love and marriage : performing 'Miao cultural individuality' in an upland Miao love-song / Chien Mei-ling
  • Modalities of the one-child policy among urban migrants in China / Chang Kuei-min
  • The 'culture' of world cultural heritage / Eveline Bingaman
  • 'Amis hip-hop' : the bodily expressions of contemporary young Amis in Taiwan / Futuru C.L. Tsai
  • Contesting memory : the shifting power of narration in contemporary Paiwan contexts / Li-Ju Hong
  • Ethnicity as strategy : Taiwan state policies and the Thao / Yayoi Mitsuda
  • On the 'third morning' : the continuity of life from past to present among the Nung of northern Vietnam / N. Jenny Hsu
  • Afterword : Performance as a mechanism for social change / James Wilkerson.
ISBN
  • 9780857455680 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0857455680 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012012478
OCLC
830054524
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