Contesting the Yellow Dragon

Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31922-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 828 g

Reihe: Religion in Chinese Societies

Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kang, Xiaofei

Sutton, Donald S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
List of Figures and Photographs x
Abbreviations xi
Note on Ming shilu and Qing shilu xii
Note on Tibetan Terms xiii
Introduction 1
1 Garrison City in the Ming: Indigenes and the State in Greater Songpan 16
2 Qing Songpan: Recovery, Over-extension and Disaster 69
3 Guns, Gold, Gown, and Poppy: Ethnic Frontier in a Failing Republic 123
4 Sharing a Sacred Center: Conch Mountain of the East, Yellow Dragon, and Chinese and Tibetan Culture 171
5 Songpan, the State and Social Revolution, 1950–78 223
6 Opening Up the Borderland I: The Politics of Tourist Development and Environmental Protection 277
7 Opening Up the Borderland II: Ethnicity for Tourists 311
8 Contesting the Yellow Dragon in the Age of Reform: Local Initiatives and Responses 334
9 Ethnoreligion, Ethnic Identity and Regional Consciousness at Songpan 375
Conclusion 410
Bibliography 425
Appendix: Religious Activities in the Songpan Region 457
Tibetan Glossary 468
Index 471

Über Autor(innen)

Xiaofei Kang received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University. She has published on religion, ethnicity, tourism, and gender, including The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China (Columbia, 2006).

Donald Sutton (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published books on 20th century warlordism and popular religion in Taiwan, and numerous articles on the 18th century Miao in west Hunan and on ritual in past and recent Chinese societies.