Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

by Emily Chao

Book Overview

Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.

The vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295992239
• ISBN13: 9780295992235
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher