Chinese Culture & Society

_x005F_x000D_ Examining Chinese male migrant workers’ identity formation, this book explores their experience of rural-urban migration and their status in an emerging dislocated urban working class. Focusing on issues of gender and class, it provides an in-depth analysis of how these men make sense ..

The role of the Chinese Diaspora in China’s recent economic success has created a myth that their relations with China is natural and primordial, and that regardless of their base outside China and generation of migration, the Chinese Diaspora are inclined to participate enthusiastically in China’s ..

Providing a up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the most critical aspects of the growth of HIV/AIDS in China, this book goes beyond biomedical explanations to link the epidemic to broader issues of economic and social development...

Providing a up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the most critical aspects of the growth of HIV/AIDS in China, this book goes beyond biomedical explanations to link the epidemic to broader issues of economic and social development...

Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation, Hybrid Hong Kong intends to display and explain hybridity as it is performed in the public as well as private spheres of city life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology...

Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation, Hybrid Hong Kong intends to display and explain hybridity as it is performed in the public as well as private spheres of city life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology...

The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uighurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into violence. At the same time as being a potential troublespot for China, the province is of increasing strategic importance as China’s gateway to Central..

The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uighurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into violence. At the same time as being a potential troublespot for China, the province is of increasing strategic importance as China’s gateway to Central..

This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists...

This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists. They use the lenses of irony and ..

This book investigates the ways in which Islam affects family matters, and especially the status of women, and the ways in which family, religion and society interrelate among Uyghurs in China...

This book investigates the ways in which Islam affects family matters, and especially the status of women, and the ways in which family, religion and society interrelate among Uyghurs in China...