Search Results for southwestern China

...Hsiao-pei Yen This essay explores the connections between colonialism, nationalism, and anthropology in China's southwestern frontier. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the pressing problem of national survival encouraged the Nationalist state and anthropologists to collaborate in an effort...

...- ferent systems that make up the social network. For example, families and villages in multinational communities in southwestern China often contain different social systems (such as ethnicity, religion, language, and so on). In this essay, I propose to establish a connection between “trans...

...Arif Dirlik The essay critically engages two recent works on the Confucian revival in the People’s Republic of China published by Princeton University Press, the one advocating a Confucian monarchy for the PRC, the other arguing for the universal relevance of Confucianism as a “world religion...

... Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek (London: Verso, 2010). 2. Similar analyses might be applied to other postsocialist contexts, such as China, Cuba, or postdictatorship Latin America. The epistemological status of Eastern Europe as such a territory, construed as an object of investigation rather than...