Autonomy, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Southwestern China The State Turned Upside Down

by Shih, Chih-yu

• ISBN13: 9781403984463
• ISBN10: 1403984468
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines the three different channels by which the Chinese state reaches out to ethnic communities: autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty.

Author Biography

Chih-yu Shih teaches political psychology, cultural studies and China studies at National Taiwan University and National Sun Yatsen University and has published numerous books and articles including Negotiating Ethnicity in China, Navigating Sovereignty, Collective Democracy, Symbolic War, State and Society in China's Political Economy, China's Just World, and The Spirit of Chinese Foreign Policy, etc.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Performing Unity

Political, Cultural, and Economic Unity

The Teleology of the State: Top-Down Regional Ethnic Autonomy

Performing Ethnicity: Politics of Representation in Multi-Ethnic Guilin

Silencing the Poor: The Statist-Liberal Incapacity in Western Hunan

The State Turned Upside Down

The State as a Borderline Identity: Setting the Jing Ethnicity in Dongxing

Imagined Genealogy: Behind the Cultural Formation of Huishui's Buyi Nationality

Cement or Excrement? Autonomous Ecological Thinking in Xiaoki's Poverty Discourse

Out of Place

3 + 1 + 1 = 1: Disempowerment in Multi-Ethnic Autonomous Longsheng

Lost Agency for Change: The Diasporic Identity in Yizhou's Shui Villages

Riding The Citizenship

Assimilation into Mulao Consciousness: The Rise of Participatory Rigor in Luocheng

Living with the State: Multiplying Ethnic Yao Narratives in Jinxiu

Learning to Be Rational: The Drive toward Marketization in Fenghuang

Conclusion: From Unity to Harmony-Progress or Regression?

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