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Frontier Fieldwork
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Author : Andres Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2022-10-15
Frontier Fieldwork written by Andres Rodriguez and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-15 with Social Science categories.
The centre may hold, but borders can fray. Frontier Fieldwork explores the work of social scientists, agriculturists, photographers, students, and missionaries who took to the field on China’s southwestern border at a time when foreign political powers were contesting China’s claims over its frontiers. In the early twentieth century, when the threat of imperialism loomed large in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, these fieldworkers undertook a nation-building exercise to unite a disparate, multi-ethnic population at the periphery of the country. They saw themselves as a vanguard force, foreshadowing the policies of social development and intervention that would be pursued during the Cold War decades later. Drawing on Chinese and Western materials, Andres Rodriguez exposes the transformative power of the fieldworkers’ efforts, which went beyond creating new forms of political action and identity. His incisive study demonstrates that fieldwork placed China’s margins at the centre of its nation-making process and race to modernity.
Frontier Fieldwork
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Author : Andres Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-09-19
Frontier Fieldwork written by Andres Rodriguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-19 with categories.
Frontier Ethnographies
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Author : Nafay Choudhury
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2024-11-01
Frontier Ethnographies written by Nafay Choudhury and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Ethnography destabilizes the notion of the frontier as merely a geographic space and conveys its limitations—that lead researchers to reflect on their methodological approaches. Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan by assembling voices of emerging scholars who have conducted field research within the region in the past two decades. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, researchers reflect on their own experiences of field research and how—faced with frontiers—they have been forced to reimagine or reconstruct their understanding of the social world.
Age Of Exploration
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Author : Elisabeth Kaske
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-08-19
Age Of Exploration written by Elisabeth Kaske and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-19 with History categories.
In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also in knowledge of China itself. A rising generation of Chinese scientists, engineers, and administrators was eager to address this state of affairs and began to retrace the footsteps of Western explorers who had crisscrossed China during the preceding century. The nine case studies assembled in this book show how a new cohort of professional Chinese explorers traveled, studied, appropriated, and reshaped national space from the 1920s to the 1950s. In some instances, the explorers drew directly from the fieldwork practices of their Western predecessors. In others, they trained compilers to collect and systematize local knowledge that could be passed up the administrative hierarchy to government and national institutions. Their projects helped to claim natural resources, prepare for infrastructural development, and create new institutionalized knowledge and public engagement with textual representations of China’s geobody. This book elucidates the ways in which knowledge production in early twentieth-century China centered on space and contributed to China’s transformation into a modern nation-state.
Fieldwork In Modern Chinese History
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Author : Thomas David DuBois
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Fieldwork In Modern Chinese History written by Thomas David DuBois and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with History categories.
This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how to integrate oral history into research plans and archival research, conduct interviews, and locate sources in the field. Chapters by established researchers relate these techniques to specific types of fieldwork, including religion, the imperial past, natural environments and agriculture. Combining the past and the future of the craft, the book provides a rich resource for scholars coming new to fieldwork in the history of China.
Post Frontier Resource Governance
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Author : P. Larsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Post Frontier Resource Governance written by P. Larsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Political Science categories.
The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.
A Tight Grip
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Author : Wen-Hsuan Tsai
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2025-08-01
A Tight Grip written by Wen-Hsuan Tsai and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-01 with Political Science categories.
A non-democratic regime must solve two problems in order to survive: how to share power within the political elite and how to control society. A Tight Grip examines the strategies that China’s current, and longest-serving, head of state has used to address these questions and bolster his leadership of the world’s second-most populous country. Wen-Hsuan Tsai explores the president’s method of concentrating decision-making power in his own hands through political dominance and ideological control while still creating scope for local-level political advancement. As a result, he has expanded the reach of social control while reducing its cost to the regime. A Tight Grip is an in-depth exploration of the president’s innovative use of specific institutional and policy instruments to develop a restricted power-sharing model and maintain social order. This clear-eyed assessment reveals not only the pros and cons of particular regulations but also their implications for China’s political development.
Sociology And Anthropology In Twentieth Century China
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Author : Arif Dirlik
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2012-02-03
Sociology And Anthropology In Twentieth Century China written by Arif Dirlik and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-03 with Social Science categories.
Within this text, the contributors provide a historical perspective on the development of anthropology and sociology since their introduction to Chinese thought and education in the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on the 1930s and 1980s. The authors offer different windows on theoretical and research agendas of anthropologists and sociologists of the PRC and Taiwan, shaped as much by their political context as by disciplinary training. In examining the careers of several individual scholars, they also make note not only of their creative contributions, but also of the resonance of their intellectual concerns with contemporary issues in sociology and anthropology (culturalism, frontiers, women). Finally, the volume is organized loosely around the problem of how to translate these disciplines into a Chinese context(s), the issues of "indigenization" (bentuhua) or "making Chinese" (Zhongguohua), which have haunted the two disciplines since their establishment in the 1930s because of the contradictory expectations that they generate. This is where the case of China resonates with similar concerns in other societies where the disciplines were imported from abroad as products of a Euro/American capitalist modernity, conflicting with aspirations to create their own localized alternative modernities.
How Maoism Was Made
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Author : Aaron William Moore
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2024-12-26
How Maoism Was Made written by Aaron William Moore and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-26 with History categories.
How Maoism Was Made features new scholarship on the early years after the Chinese Communist revolution, showing how ordinary people in China built socialism through their contributions to industry, science, and the arts.
Not Just A Man S War
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Author : Yihong Pan
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2024-09-01
Not Just A Man S War written by Yihong Pan and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-01 with History categories.
In 1931, Japan began a brutal occupation of Manchuria, and in 1937, China and Japan entered a full-scale war that ended with Japan’s defeat in 1945. The War of Resistance became the Chinese experience of the Second World War. Yet women scarcely get a mention in most accounts of the fourteen-year conflict. Through interviews, published reminiscences, and oral histories, Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during the war. Communist women speak of fighting as soldiers for “a good war” and contributing to the party’s rise to power. Nationalist women attribute their survival to the strength of the human spirit while acknowledging tremendous suffering. Women from the working poor and the middle classes describe the hardships of Japanese aggression and in their narratives refuse to be ignored as passive beings. In speaking up, the victims of sexual violence become survivor activists demanding justice. These women demonstrate a striking autonomy regardless of political association, socioeconomic status, or education. By attending to their insights, Not Just a Man’s War produces a multi-faceted, inclusive narrative of China’s War of Resistance.