Marginalization in China

TRAMA

Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response.

SOMMARIO

Introduction: Making Minorities in China; S.Cheung, J.Tse-Hei Lee & L.V.Nedilsky Reaching out for the Ladder of Success: 'Outsiders' and the Civil Examination in Late Imperial China; W. Puk Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China;  R.J.Antony Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in South China; J.Tse-Hei Lee The Transnational Redress Campaign for Chinese Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Shanxi Province; Y.Terazawa The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Stepladder of Social Ascent; M.Xia Feminisation, Recognition and the Cosmological in Xishuangbanna; A.Komlosy Re-Presenting Women's Identities: Recognition and Representation of Rural Chinese Women; S.R.Wesoky 'This Is My Mother's Land!' An Indigenous Woman Speaks Out; S.Cheung Making Rights Claims Visible: Intersectionality, NGO Activism, and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong; L.Fischler Institutionalizing the Representation of Religious Minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong; L.V.Nedilsky The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou; K.Law & K.Lee

AUTORE

Joseph Tse-Hei is a professor of History at Pace University.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781349378449
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XII, 263 p. 2 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 263
• Pagine Romane: xii