China's New Socialist Countryside : Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley / Russell Harwood.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on ethnic groups in China | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©[2014]Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
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  • 9780295804781
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Contents:
Foreword / Stevan Harrell -- Introduction -- Life at the Periphery of the Chinese Party-State : An Introduction -- Nature Reserves and Reforestation : The Impacts of Conservation Programs upon Livelihoods -- All Is Not as It Appears : Education Reform -- Migration from the Margins : Increasing Outward Migration for Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms.
Summary: Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection of medicinal plants from surrounding forests, and small-scale logging to sustain their household economies. This book explores how compulsory education, conservation programs, migration for work, and the expansion of social and economic infrastructure are not only transforming livelihoods, but also intensifying the Chinese Party-state’s capacity to integrate ethnic minorities into its political fabric and the national industrial economy.
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Foreword / Stevan Harrell -- Introduction -- Life at the Periphery of the Chinese Party-State : An Introduction -- Nature Reserves and Reforestation : The Impacts of Conservation Programs upon Livelihoods -- All Is Not as It Appears : Education Reform -- Migration from the Margins : Increasing Outward Migration for Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms.

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection of medicinal plants from surrounding forests, and small-scale logging to sustain their household economies. This book explores how compulsory education, conservation programs, migration for work, and the expansion of social and economic infrastructure are not only transforming livelihoods, but also intensifying the Chinese Party-state’s capacity to integrate ethnic minorities into its political fabric and the national industrial economy.

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