China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the NU River Valley

by Russell Harwood

Book Overview

Open-access edition: 10.6069/9780295804781

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993383
• ISBN13: 9780295993386
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher