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The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up
A compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also one of the most censored) chose his subjects from the bottom of Chinese society: people for whom the \"new\" China--the China of economic growth and globalization--is no more beneficial than the old. Here are a professional mourner, a trafficker in humans, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a former landowner, a mortician, a feng shui master, a former Red Guard, a political prisoner, a village teacher, a blind street musician, a Falun Gong practitioner, and many others--people who have been battered by life but who have managed to retain their dignity, their humor, and their essential, complex humanity. Liao's interviews were given from 1990 to 2003.--From amazon.com.
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Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia
Assessing the legacies of revolution, social upheaval and reform among minorities in communist Asia, the case studies in this volume analyse the experience of conflict and social disruption, while providing an original comparative perspective on Tibet and Inner Asia.
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Ordinary & The Extraordinary
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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In the wake of the Mongols : the making of a new social order in North China, 1200-1600
\"Recounts the riveting story of the Mongol conquest of north China, which inflicted terrible wartime destruction, and how the northern Chinese adapted to changed circumstances and interacted with their conquerors to create a drastically new social order. Delineates the region's changing social dynamics over four centuries of Mongol rule\"--Provided by publisher.
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Nomads of Eastern Tibet
This book presents the first comprehensive anthropological account of premodern Tibetan pastoral economy and social organization in the Kham region of eastern Tibet, and convincingly readdresses anthropological debates and political claims about feudalism or serfdom in Tibetan societies.
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The Ordinary and the Extraordinary
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Salt production and social hierarchy in ancient China : an archaeological investigation of specialization in China's Three Gorges
\"This book examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Social change in contemporary China and the theory of social contradictions
This book examines the various social contradictions that sit at the heart of China's strategy of maintaining a harmonious socialist society while generating vertiginous economic growth. Edited by a senior member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the book discusses the roots and backgrounds of the key theories of contradiction, alongside the practical implications on modern-day China. The content is divided into two unique parts. The first section focuses on the contradictions among the people, while the second section examines the contradictions between different social groups and social classes. Systematic and wide-ranging, the book provides a clear understanding into China's perceptions and ideas of social contradiction theory. It will be particularly relevant to scholars in social sciences/socialism studies, Marxist theory studies, and Chinese/Asian studies. [First edition published under the title \"Efficiency, Equality and Harmony: On Contradictions among the People in the New Era and Socialist Harmonious Society\", 2006.] (Series: Philosophy in Modern China) [Subject: Sociology, Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Philosophy, Socialism]
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