Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky.
New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
xii, 263 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making minorities in China / Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky -- Reaching out for the ladder of success: "Outsiders" and the civil examination in late Imperial China / Wing-Kin Puk -- Banditry, marginality, and survival among the laboring poor in late Imperial south China / Robert J. Antony -- Politics of faith: Christian activism and the Maoist state in south China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- The transnational redress campaign for Chinese survivors of wartime sexual violence in Shanxi province / Yuki Terazawa -- The Chinese underclass and organized crime as a stepladder of social ascent / Ming Xia -- Feminisation, recognition and the cosmological in Xishuangbanna / Anouska Komlosy -- Re-presenting women's identities: recognition and representation of rural Chinese women / Sharon R. Wesoky -- "This is my mother's land!" an indigenous woman speaks out / Siu-Keung Cheung -- Making rights claims visible: intersectionality, NGO activism, and cultural politics in Hong Kong / Lisa Fischler -- Institutionalizing the representation of religious minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong / Lida V. Nedilsky -- The limits of Chinese transnationalism: the cultural identity of Malaysian-Chinese students in Guangzhou / Kam-Yee Law, Kim-Ming Lee.
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Publisher description: State management of diversity is a modern enterprise. China?s need to temper the push for national unity with policies of variety and difference is no exception. Marginalization in China: Recasting Minority Politics, a collection of historical and contemporary accounts of gender, ethnic, class and religious minority formation, debunks popular misconceptions about China?s highly centralized state and seemingly homogeneous society. Drawing on archival research, interviews and field work it documents how state and citizens meet in a politics of minority recognition, and so inform the growing awareness of rights in China. Rich and timely, this volume reminds everyone that China has the power not only to attract attention to itself but invite reflection back on every polity?s approach to diversity.