The Violence of Liberation - Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-520-25060-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

This wide-ranging, keenly observed study provides a groundbreaking account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang became incorporated into the People's Republic of China. Drawing from thirteen years of archival research and fieldwork in and around the famous Geluk sect Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Charlene Makley situates the process of incorporation in the violent upheavals of Maoist socialist transformation that took place from 1950 through the 1970s and in the transition to globalization via Deng Xiaoping's capitalist market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Synthesizing social theory drawn from anthropology, political economy, gender studies, and linguistic anthropology, she finds that incorporation had quite different effects for Tibetan men and women, creating painful dilemmas across generations. Her study provides a sensitive and controversial examination of many different Tibetan voices and opens a new perspective on Sino-Tibetan relations in this important frontier region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makley, Charlene E.

Makley, Charlene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
Abbreviations

Introduction: Bodies of Power
1. Fatherlands: Mapping Masculinities
2. Father State: Socialist Transformation and Gendered Historiography
3. Mother Home: Circumambulation, Femininities, and the Ambiguous Mobility of Women
4. Consuming Women: Consumption, Sexual Politics, and the Dangers of Mixing
5. Monks Are Men Too: Domesticating Monastic Subjects
Epilogue: Quandaries of Agency

Notes
References Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charlene E. Makley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.