Marginalization in China [Elektronisk resurs] Recasting minority politics / Edited by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky, Siu Keung Cheung.

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

• 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. 
• "Under China's regime of graded citizenship, 'minorities' are variously defined by ethnicity, class, gender and geography. Such state-imposed labels and their marginalizing effects are being vigorously challenged by minority strategies for recognition and rights. The authors of Marginalization in China make a compelling case that the struggles of minorities are at the forefront of an emerging Chinese civil society." - Aihwa Ong, Social Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley "This book has a diversity of topics and supplies rich detail on a variety of groups in Chinese society. That is what makes it unique." - Merle Goldman, Professor Emerita of History, Boston University and Research Associate, Fairbank Center, Harvard University "Like every major society in the post-Cold War era, China struggles to find national unity in the midst of ethnic, religious, and regional diversity. This timely new book gives us a fresh look at these struggles, and new consideration of the political, social, and moral challenges they pose. It is especially valuable for providing a historical context for present-day challenges." - Richard Madsen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and China Studies, University of California, San Diego "Marginalization in China prompts readers to rethink many central issues: how minority groups refashion state-imposed labels; how nation building is shaped by the contention between state structures and indigenous agencies; and how identity formation and interest representation are negotiated along conflicting class, gender, religious, and ethnic lines. This is a rich and thought-provoking book that should be read closely and one that deserves a wide audience." - Tak-Wing Ngo, Leiden University, The Netherlands "What makes this volume innovative is its rather broad conceptualization of 'minority.' This is one of the first English language volumes to provide a wider analytical gaze at the politics of social marginalization, making an important contribution to the academic discourse on multiculturalism." - James Leibold, Politics and Asian Studies, La Trobe University, Australia. 

Ämnesord

Marginality, Social  -- History -- China. (LCSH)

Multiculturalism  -- History -- China. (LCSH)

Minorities  -- Government policy -- History -- China. (LCSH)

History.  (eflch)

China  -- Ethnic relations. (LCSH)

China  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

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