China's new socialist countryside : modernity arrives in the Nu River Valley /

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Author / Creator:	Harwood, Russell, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies on ethnic groups in China Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Subject:	Rural development -- China -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou. Rural population -- China -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou. Economic history. Rural development. Rural population. Social conditions Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Social conditions. Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Economic conditions. China -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209037

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ISBN:	0295804785 9780295804781 9780295993256 0295993251 9780295993386 0295993383
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who until recently lived as subsistence farmers, relying on shifting cultivation, hunting, the collection of medicinal plants from surrounding forests, and small-scale logging to sustain their household economies. This book explores how compulsory education, conservation programs, migration for work, and the expansion of social and economic infrastructure are not only transforming livelihoods, but also intensifying the Chinese Party-state's capacity to integrate ethnic minorities into its political fabric and the national industrial economy.
Other form:	Print version: Harwood, Russell. China's new socialist countryside. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014] 9780295993256

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