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Faith by Aurality in China's Ethnic Borderland

Author : Ying Diao
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Gospel music
ISBN : 9781648250743

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Faith by Aurality in China's Ethnic Borderland by Ying Diao Pdf

"Illuminates how voice, faith, and hearing become intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and mobility amid the rapidly transforming religious landscape of China's ethnic borderland. The twentieth-century expansion of Protestantism among the upland peoples in the China-Southeast Asia borderlands has catalyzed a profound sociocultural change in the region. In Faith by Aurality in China's Ethnic Borderland, Ying Diao finds important sonic evidence for this religious revolution in a rapidly transforming northwest Yunnan, presenting a compelling account of China's minority-Christian landscape and highlighting the importance of aurality in the peripheral peoples' response to Christianity and other modernizing projects. Diao documents a range of sounded religious practices by the Lisu, an indigenous yet historically migratory people, to examine how participatory music production, circulation, and consumption become integral to indigenous perception and experience of faith. Weaving together evidence from multisite fieldwork, archival records, and audiovisual media, Diao demonstrates nuanced understanding of people of faith at the margin, one centered on the sensual and material dimensions of religion and on the intertwining of local agency and external hegemonic forces. As the first full-length ethnographic account of China's Christian minorities on a transnational scale to be published in English, this book provides historical and contextual information that enriches anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global Christianity, ethnicity, media, and mobility while showing how sound can be an ambivalent but fruitful avenue through which ways of faith are constructed and remain fluid in a context where discussions and practices of religion are constrained"--

Ethnicity and Religion in Southwest China

Author : He Ming,David C. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000318173

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Ethnicity and Religion in Southwest China by He Ming,David C. Lewis Pdf

As China strengthens its links with its neighbours through its Belt and Road initiative, there is growing interest in the indigenous peoples of China’s western and southwestern borderlands. This book, based on extensive original research, considers the indigenous peoples of Yunnan province, which is a major gateway between China and the countries of south and south-east Asia. Unlike many books on China’s indigenous peoples which are written by foreigners who have lived for a while in China, this book is comprised of the work of Chinese scholars, many of them members of ethnic minorities themselves, and considers the issues from a Chinese perspective.

Xinjiang

Author : S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317451372

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Xinjiang by S. Frederick Starr Pdf

Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world? This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 1998. The authors have combined their fieldwork experience, linguistic skills, and disciplinary expertise to assemble the first multifaceted introduction to Xinjiang. The volume surveys the region's geography; its history of military and political subjugation to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.

Ethnic Chrysalis

Author : Loretta E. Kim
Publisher : Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 0674237196

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Ethnic Chrysalis by Loretta E. Kim Pdf

"Details the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas along the China-Russia borderland. Traces the evolution of Qing policies toward the Orochen and examines how the impact of political organization in one era endures in the group's social and cultural values"--Provided by publisher.

Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004256422

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Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet by Anonim Pdf

In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic population and its complex religious history, which incorporates both large Geluk monasteries and significant Nyingma and Bonpo lay tantric communities. Covering the nineteenth century to the present, this volume brings together ten papers that explore the relationship between religion and culture in Rebkong. Using insights from anthropology, history and religious studies, the contributors offer new research and fresh interpretations of this important region on China’s periphery, discussing issues of ethnicity and identity, the role of public institutions, and the role of religion and rituals.

The Scientist and the Spy

Author : Mara Hvistendahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780735214309

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The Scientist and the Spy by Mara Hvistendahl Pdf

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and spies, and flew surveillance planes over corn country—all in the name of protecting trade secrets of corporate giants Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer. In The Scientist and the Spy, Hvistendahl gives a gripping account of this unusually far-reaching investigation, which pitted a veteran FBI special agent against Florida resident Robert Mo, who after his academic career foundered took a questionable job with the Chinese agricultural company DBN—and became a pawn in a global rivalry. Industrial espionage by Chinese companies lies beneath the United States’ recent trade war with China, and it is one of the top counterintelligence targets of the FBI. But a decade of efforts to stem the problem have been largely ineffective. Through previously unreleased FBI files and her reporting from across the United States and China, Hvistendahl describes a long history of shoddy counterintelligence on China, much of it tinged with racism, and questions the role that corporate influence plays in trade secrets theft cases brought by the U.S. government. The Scientist and the Spy is both an important exploration of the issues at stake and a compelling, involving read.

Contesting the Yellow Dragon

Author : Xiaofei Kang,Donald S. Sutton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004319233

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Contesting the Yellow Dragon by Xiaofei Kang,Donald S. Sutton Pdf

Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine a garrison city and a pilgrimage center in the Sino-Tibetan borderland, tracing the dynamic role of religion and ethnicity in state/society relations from the Ming founding through Communist revolution to the age of tourism.

China and Islam

Author : Matthew S. Erie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107053373

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China and Islam by Matthew S. Erie Pdf

This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.

Gender in Chinese Music

Author : Rachel A. Harris,Rowan Pease,Shzr Ee Tan
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464437

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Gender in Chinese Music by Rachel A. Harris,Rowan Pease,Shzr Ee Tan Pdf

Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and genders "in between" in Chinese culture.

The Indo-German Identification

Author : Robert B. Robert B. Cowan,Robert Cowan
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571134639

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The Indo-German Identification by Robert B. Robert B. Cowan,Robert Cowan Pdf

The nineteenth-century development -- and later consequences -- of the imagined relationship between ancient India and modern German culture.

Between East and West

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141979236

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Between East and West by Anne Applebaum Pdf

A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years 'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life' Ryszard Kapuscinski As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, Between East and West illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people. 'A beautifully written and thought-provoking account of a journey along Europe's forgotten edge' Timothy Garton Ash 'A vivid and penetrating assessment of the lands between the Baltic and the Black Sea in all their drama and desolation . . . a wise and useful book' Robert Conquest 'Combines the excitement of a well-written and adventurous travelogue with sophisticated reportage' Norman Davies 'You will be totally absorbed' Norman Stone Anne Applebaum is a historian and journalist, a regular columnist for the Washington Post and Slate, and the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is the Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute in London, and she divides her time between Britain and Poland, where her husband, Radek Sikorski, serves as Foreign Minister.

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

Author : Anya von Bremzen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307886835

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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Pdf

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations “Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”—NPR’s All Things Considered Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly

Tuning the Kingdom

Author : Damascus Kafumbe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580469043

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Tuning the Kingdom by Damascus Kafumbe Pdf

Examines how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble uses musical performance and storytelling to manage, structure, model, and legitimize power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda.

Listen with the Ear of the Heart

Author : Maria S. Guarino
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580469104

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Listen with the Ear of the Heart by Maria S. Guarino Pdf

A contemplative ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music.

The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali

Author : Kendra Stepputat
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Balinese (Indonesian people)
ISBN : 9781648250316

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The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali by Kendra Stepputat Pdf

"The Kecak is one of the most well-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. It is based on stories from the Old-Indian epic Ramayana, performed by an ensemble of male and female solo dancers and accompanied by a group consisting of approximately 100 men, who function both as musical accompaniment and living scenery that can be flexibly choreographed. Since its genesis in the 1930s the Kecak has been almost solely performed in a tourist context. This book gives a thorough analysis and description of the Kecak in its present form and explores how the Kecak became and stayed a tourist genre for more than 80 years. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the Kecak in its present form, including musical, choreographic, and dramatic elements. The connection between cultural tourism on Bali and Kecak performance practice is analyzed in detail, including the dependency between tourism professionals and artists and ways of promoting the kecak. Tourists' perspectives on the Kecak are addressed separately. The second part deals with the genesis and development of the Kecak from the 1930s onward"--