- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (vi, 212 p.) :) : digital file.
- Summary
- This book examines the evolution of the local identity in China from historical times to the present day. It traces the expression of local identity in religion and myth, in the construction of the provincial character, in the growth of cities, in literature, in economic development and in the expansion of the Chinese state.
- Uniform Title
- Unity and Diversity (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- Glossary in English and Chinese.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction : what does the Chinese person identify with? / Tao Tao Liu and David Faure -- 1. Provinces, city gods and salt merchants : provincial identity in Ming and Qing Dynasty Hangzhou / Susanna Thornton -- 2. Becoming Cantonese, the Ming Dynasty transition / David Faure -- 3. Literary, ethnic or territorial? : definitions of Guangdong culture in the late Qing and the early Republic / May-bo Ching -- 4. Xinjiang : in search of an identity / Laura Newby -- 5. The kings who could fly without their heads : "local" culture in China and the case of the Hmong / Nicholas Tapp -- 6. The image and identity of the Shanghainese / Xiong Yuezhi -- 7. Creating a Shanghai identity : late Qing courtesan handbooks and the formation of the new citizen / Catherine Yeh -- 8. Women, work and identity : a study of two 1930s novels on the opera singer / Mau-sang Ng -- 9. Local identity in Chinese fiction and fiction of the native soil : "Xiangtu Wenxue" / Tao Tao Liu -- 10. Local religion and village identity / Stephan Feuchtwang -- 11. Remade in Hong Kong : weaving into the Chinese cultural tapestry / Helen F. Siu -- Glossary -- Index.
- OCLC
- ssj0000430347
- Title
Unity and Diversity [electronic resource] : Local Cultures and Identities in China / edited by Tao Tao Liu and David Faure.
- Imprint
Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, c1996 (Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse 2012) (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
Glossary in English and Chinese.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Liu, Tao Tao.
Faure, David.
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9622094023 9789622094024