Invisible China
A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
Seiten
2009
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-55652-814-9 (ISBN)
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-55652-814-9 (ISBN)
Explores the minority people who dwell in the farthest reaches of China. This title reveals truths about China's hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society through discussions, including a debate with Ewenki village cadres on human rights and talks with ageing hajjis about the Chinese government's razing of their mosque.
In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of the country to meet 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.
In Invisible China, they engage in a heated discussion of human rights with Daur and Ewenki village cadres; celebrate Muhammad’s birthday with aging Dongxiang hajjis who recount the government’s razing of their mosque; attend mass with old Catholic Kinh fishermen at a church that has been forty years without a priest; hike around high-altitude Lugu Lake to farm with the matrilineal Mosuo women; and descend into a dry riverbed to hunt for jade with Muslim Uyghur merchants. As they uncover surprising facts about China’s hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society, they discover the social ramifications of inconsistent government policies--and some deep human truths as well.
In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of the country to meet 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.
In Invisible China, they engage in a heated discussion of human rights with Daur and Ewenki village cadres; celebrate Muhammad’s birthday with aging Dongxiang hajjis who recount the government’s razing of their mosque; attend mass with old Catholic Kinh fishermen at a church that has been forty years without a priest; hike around high-altitude Lugu Lake to farm with the matrilineal Mosuo women; and descend into a dry riverbed to hunt for jade with Muslim Uyghur merchants. As they uncover surprising facts about China’s hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society, they discover the social ramifications of inconsistent government policies--and some deep human truths as well.
Colin Legerton has worked as a Chinese-English translator and is currently in the master's program of Central Eurasian and Uralic studies at Indiana University. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Jacob Rawson gives presentations on China's ethnic minorities and the Korean minority in Japan and is currently in the master's program of Chinese and Korean linguistics at the University of Washington. He lives in Mount Vernon, Washington.
Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
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Verlagsort | Chicago |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 535 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-55652-814-0 / 1556528140 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55652-814-9 / 9781556528149 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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