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The Lahu Minority in Southwest China: A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier: Routledge Contemporary China Series

Autor Jianxiong Ma
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2021
The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system, with the highest suicide rate in the world, large scale human trafficking of their women, alcoholism and poverty. This book, based on extensive original research including long-term anthropological research among the Lahu, provides an overview of the traditional way of life of the Lahu, their social system, culture and beliefs, and discusses the ways in which these are changing. It shows how the Lahu are especially vulnerable because of their lack of political representatives and a state educated elite which can engage with, and be part of, the government administrative system. The Lahu are one of many relatively small ethnic minorities in China – overall the book provides an example of how the Chinese government approaches these relatively small ethnic minorities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138109155
ISBN-10: 1138109150
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 2 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 78 Halftones, black and white; 90 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Contemporary China Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction  2. The Escape of E Sha Buddha: Ethnicity and Political Movements in the Black River Valley  3. Death Threat and Self-negation: Tension and Pressure in the Spiritual World  4. Marriage and Land Property: Bilateral Non-lineal Kinship and Communal Authority  5. 'To Become Wives of the Han': Conflicts, Marriage Squeeze and Resettlement of Women  6. Poverty Reduction and Education  7. Suicide as a Cultural Response and an Indicator of the Change of Social Relationships  8. Concluding Remarks

Recenzii

"The book accomplishes its task of bringing depth to a reform contemporary Lahu community largely by the strength of its ethnographic description and the thoughtfulness of its narrative." - Kevin Caffrey, Harvard University, USA, China Information 2013 

Descriere

This book, based on extensive original research including long-term anthropological research among the Lahu, provides an overview of the traditional way of life of the Lahu, their social system, culture and beliefs, and discusses the ways in which these are changing. It shows how the Lahu are especially vulnerable because of their lack of political representatives and a state educated elite which can engage with, and be part of, the government administrative system. The Lahu are one of many relatively small ethnic minorities in China – overall the book provides an example of how the Chinese government approaches these relatively small ethnic minorities.