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  • Perspectives On the Yi of Southwest China by Stevan Harrell

    University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95

    Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. more...

  • Pioneers Of Modern Chinaby Lee Khoon Choy

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 113.00

    Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rén are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rén are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rén are more... more...

  • Invisible Chinaby Colin Legerton; Jacob Rawson

    Chicago Review Press 2009; US$ 19.95

    Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the... more...

  • Russian Politics in Exileby Dr Felix Patrikeeff

    Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 136.00

    This work explores Russian life in Northern Manchuria during the period of political, economic and social upheaval, leading to its eventual de facto control by Japan, and disruption of the balance of power in the Northeast Asian Region. Presenting a fresh interpretation of the combined impact of the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict and the onset of the Great... more...

  • Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949by C. Ou; D. Norman Geary

    BRILL 2007; US$ 123.00

    An insider's account of minority life in China which is also the sequel to "The Kam People of China". more...

  • Quest for Harmonyby Chuan-kang Shih

    Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 67.50

    This is a comprehensive ethnographic study about the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, whose unique traditions are bound to change accepted notions of marriage, kinship, the family, and gender relations. more...

  • Patriotic Professionalism in Urban Chinaby Lisa M. Hoffman

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 27.95

    In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China , Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital”... more...