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Tracing China : a forty-year ethnographic journey /

Tracing China's journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siu, Helen F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
China, Southeast > Civilization.
Hong Kong (China) > Civilization.
Ethnology > China, Southeast.
Ethnology > China > Hong Kong.
Rural-urban relations > China, Southeast.
Rural-urban relations > China > Hong Kong.
Civilization.
Ethnology.
Rural-urban relations.
China > Hong Kong.
China, Southeast.
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Summary:Tracing China's journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine political tumults transforming into everyday lives, and fathom the depths of human drama amid China's frenetic momentum toward modernity. Highlighting complicity, Siu portrays how villagers, ubanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectual -- laden with historical baggage--venture forward. But have they victimized themselves in the process? -- back cover.
Physical Description:xiv, 510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [461]-503) and index.
ISBN:9789888083732
9888083732