China Off Center

Contents

Contents Foreword Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China xiii prasenjit duara Preface xvii susan d. blum and lionel m. jensen Acknowledgments xxi 1 Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom 1 susan d. blum and lionel m. jensen Part I THE CENTER AND THE NONCENTER 2 How Much of China Is Ruled by Beijing? 25 liu binyan 3 Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism 31 edward friedman 4 The Languages of China 45 s. robert ramsey ix Part II GEOGRAPHIC MARGINS Northwest 5 Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang 71 a. doak barnett 6 Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community 106 dru c. gladney Southwest and the Diaspora 7 Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin 131 sydney d. white 8 Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming 148 susan d. blum 9 The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities 167 david yen-ho wu South and Southeast 10 The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise 185 mary s. erbaugh Part III SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MARGINS Sexuality 11 Sexual Behavior in Modern China 221 dalin liu, man lun ng, li ping zhou, and erwin j. haeberle 12 The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality 238 vincent e. gil Contents x Gender and Work 13 “The Moon Reflecting the Sunlight”: The Village Woman 249 james tyson and ann tyson Economic Margins 14 The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship 273 dorothy j. solinger Popular Culture: Rock and Roll 15 The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China 291 andrew f. jones Spiritual Life 16 Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China 311 eric karchmer 17 The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China 323 diane dorfman Afterword Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World 341 lionel m. jensen Notes 347 Bibliography 365 Contributors 387 Index 389 Contents xi ...