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Author Harwood, Russell, author.

Title China's new socialist countryside : modernity arrives in the Nu River Valley / Russell Harwood.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]

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Series Studies on ethnic groups in China
Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Foreword / Stevan Harrell -- Introduction -- Life at the Periphery of the Chinese Party-State : An Introduction -- Nature Reserves and Reforestation : The Impacts of Conservation Programs upon Livelihoods -- All Is Not as It Appears : Education Reform -- Migration from the Margins : Increasing Outward Migration for Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms.
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.
Subject Rural development -- China -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
Rural population -- China -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Social conditions.
Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China) -- Economic conditions.
Développement rural -- Chine -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
Population rurale -- Chine -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic history
Rural development
Rural population
Social conditions
China -- Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRjqC8YmKR3vFfgbx7dp
Other Form: Print version: Harwood, Russell. China's new socialist countryside. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014] 9780295993256 (DLC) 2013027329 (OCoLC)835981253
ISBN 0295804785 (electronic bk.)
9780295804781 (electronic bk.)
9780295993256 (hb ; alk. paper)
0295993251 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780295993386 (pb ; alk. paper)
0295993383 (pb ; alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000052081138
AU@ 000062430125
CHNEW 000635649
DEBBG BV043777363
DEBBG BV044058259
DEBSZ 472801708
NZ1 15318862

 
    
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