TY - BOOK ID - 78143165 TI - Lijiang stories : shamans, taxi drivers, and runaway brides in reform-era China PY - 2012 SN - 0295804386 9780295804385 9780295992228 0295992220 9780295992235 0295992239 PB - Seattle : University of Washington Press, DB - UniCat KW - Post-communism KW - Naxi (Chinese people) KW - Moso (Chinese people) KW - Moso (Tribe) KW - Mosso (Chinese people) KW - Na-hsi (Chinese people) KW - Na-khi (Chinese people) KW - Nahsi (Chinese people) KW - Nakhi (Chinese people) KW - Ethnology KW - Tibeto-Burman peoples KW - Yi (Chinese people) KW - Postcommunism KW - World politics KW - Communism KW - Social life and customs. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Government relations. KW - Lijiang Shi (China) KW - Lijiang Diqu (China) KW - Social conditions. KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Post-communisim KW - S11/0497 KW - S11/1223 KW - Economic conditions KW - Government relations KW - Social life and customs KW - China: Social sciences--Society since 1976 KW - China: Social sciences--Noso, Naxi UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143165 AB - Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.The vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent. ER -