دانلود کتاب Chieftains Into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China

Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint.Telling the story of a quintessential Chinese culture that spreaduniformly from the administrative heartland to the previously untamedperiphery, official records have largely ignored the local histories ofthe country's conquered peoples, preserved for generations in theform of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious rituals.The history of southwestern China, a region known today for itsminority character, is the subject of this volume. In "Chieftains into Ancestors, " the authors describe theintersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated localculture. Since the acceptance of a new socio-political structure neverhappens overnight, they observe local rituals against the backdrop ofextant written records, focusing on examples from the southwesternHunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and southwestern Guangdong provinces. Theauthors contemplate the crucial question of how one can begin to writethe history of a conquered people whose past has been largely wipedout. Combining anthropological fieldwork with historical textualanalysis, they dig deep for the indigenous voice as they build a newhistory of China's southwestern region - one thatrecognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations thattook place in China's nation-building process.David Faure is Wei Lun Professor of History at theChinese University of Hong Kong. His books include "Emperor andAncestor: State and Lineage in South China."HoTs'ui-p'ing is an associate research fellow at theInstitute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica and an adjunct associateprofessor in the Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing HuaUniversity. She is the co-editor of "State, Market and Ethnic GroupsContextualized." Contributors: Lian Ruizhi, Huang Shu-li, JamesWilkerson, He Xi, Xie Xiaohui, Kao Ya-ning, and Zhang Yingqiang.