Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response. INDICE: Introduction: Making Minorities in China; S.Cheung, J.Tse-Hei Lee ; L.V.Nedilsky - Reaching out for the Ladder of Success: 'Outsiders' and the Civil Examination in Late Imperial China; W.Puk - Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China; R.J.Antony - Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in South China; J.Tse-Hei Lee - The Transnational Redress Campaign for Chinese Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Shanxi Province; Y.Terazawa - The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Stepladder of Social Ascent; M.Xia - Feminisation, Recognition and the Cosmological in Xishuangbanna; A.Komlosy - Re-Presenting Women's Identities: Recognition and Representation of Rural Chinese Women; S.R.Wesoky - 'This Is My Mother's Land!' An Indigenous Woman Speaks Out; S.Cheung - Making Rights Claims Visible: Intersectionality, NGO Activism, and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong; L.Fischler - Institutionalizing the Representation of Religious Minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong; L.V.Nedilsky - The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou; K.Law ; K.Lee
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61423-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 276
- Fecha Publicación: 14/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés