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  title info:
    title: Creative belonging
    sub title: the Qiang and multiethnic imagination in modern China
  title info:
    title: Qiang and multiethnic imagination in modern China
  name:
    name part: Zhang, Yanshuo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
    role:
      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
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  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xvi, 305 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain understudied or unknown in the West. The Qiang, one of modern China's officially recognized ethnic minorities, is also China's longest-standing ethnoracial identity marker that has existed since the earliest recorded history of China. Creative Belonging investigates the formation and evolution of the Qiang as a people, a concept, and a cultural history in China. It further examines how the contemporary Qiang ethnic group interacts strategically with mainstream Chinese society, challenging the historically entrenched hierarchies between the sociocultural "centers" of China and its ethnic "peripheries." This book is based on years of ethnographic and textual-archival research in the Himalayan regions of southwest China, where the contemporary Qiang group resides. Drawing on a diverse range of official and local political discourses and previously unstudied literary, historiographical, and cinematic works, Yanshuo Zhang illuminates how the Qiang have carved out spaces of "creative belonging" within the parameters of multiculturalism in contemporary China. Rooted in ethnographic and textual-archival research, the book presents original materials produced by Qiang indigenous writers, scholars, artists, grassroots village cultural activists, and entrepreneurs at both the local and the global levels. Creative Belonging invites readers to rethink ethnicity and national belonging in China by centering minority groups' efforts to expand the meanings and implications of "Chinese culture.
  table of contents: Imagining the "Qiang" in Chinese National Narratives and Minority Scholarly Debates -- Visualizing the "Qiang" in Cinema, the Built Environment, and Tourism -- Reconstituting the "Qiang" in Literary Voices and Cultural Activism in the Himalayas.
  note: Yanshuo Zhang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: In English, with some text in Chinese scripts or romanized.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Qiang (Chinese people)
  subject:
    topic: Qiang (Chinese people)
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Cultural pluralism
    geographic: China, Southwest
  subject:
    topic: Belonging (Social psychology)
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China, Southwest
    topic: Ethnic relations
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Belonging (Social psychology)
    geographic: China
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalism
    geographic: China
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Qiang (Peuple de Chine)
  subject:
    topic: Appartenance (Psychologie sociale)
    geographic: Chine
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalisme
    geographic: Chine
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Groupes ethniques
    geographic: Chine
    topic: Histoire
  classification: DS731.C48 Z437 2026
  classification: 951.00495
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    origin info:
      publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2025029044
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  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: MiU/DLC
    record creation date: 250620
    record change date: 20260308035605.0
    record identifier: in00005693419
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng