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The Invention of Tradition in China
Story of a Village and a Nation Remade|
128,39 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 26.08.2024 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9789819738397 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 250 |
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<p>In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation. This book unravels the workings behind these promises through the story of remaking Meili, a Dong ethnic minority village nestled along the margins of China, into a “Traditional Village” heritage site. In a past riven by deep political and societal disruptions, Meili becomes a medium for contesting, mediating and continuously inventing representations of tradition that aligns with the Chinese Communist Party’s mission towards continuity and stability. The outcome is an original depiction of the compromises that shape heritage-making in a rural ethnic corner of China. Filled with rich, fine-grained narrative and analysis, Suvi Rautio offers a unique lens to the politics of inventing tradition and its far-reaching consequences in steering China's national identity under Xi Jinping rule.</p>
<p>Chapter 1: The Invention of Tradition in China.- Chapter 2: Meili Village, Between the Claws of a Dragon.- Chapter 3: Cultural Heritage and Renderings of A Village Whole.- Chapter 4: Where Planning and Materiality Intersect.- Chapter 5: Self-Reliant Masculinities.- Chapter 6: Women’s Work as the Weavers of Tradition.- Chapter 7: Fostering a Tiger that Grows up to Attack You.- Chapter 8: Remaking Home, Where the Spider Rests.</p>
<p>Suvi Rautio is a social and cultural anthropologist working on heritage-making and the politics of memory in contemporary China. From spring 2025, she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at City University New York and the University of Helsinki.</p>
<p>In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation. This book unravels the workings behind these promises through the story of remaking Meili, a Dong ethnic minority village nestled along the margins of China, into a “Traditional Village” heritage site. In a past riven by deep political and societal disruptions, Meili becomes a medium for contesting, mediating and continuously inventing representations of tradition that aligns with the Chinese Communist Party’s mission towards continuity and stability. The outcome is an original depiction of the compromises that shape heritage-making in a rural ethnic corner of China. Filled with rich, fine-grained narrative and analysis, Suvi Rautio offers a unique lens to the politics of inventing tradition and its far-reaching consequences in steering China's national identity under Xi Jinping rule.</p>
<p><strong>Suvi Rautio</strong> is a social and cultural anthropologist working on heritage-making and the politics of memory in contemporary China. From spring 2025, she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at City University New York and the University of Helsinki.</p>
<p><strong>Suvi Rautio</strong> is a social and cultural anthropologist working on heritage-making and the politics of memory in contemporary China. From spring 2025, she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at City University New York and the University of Helsinki.</p>
explores the invention of Chinese tradition illuminates the ways that the Chinese state uses tradition provides a vivid rural case study
<p>“Rautio’s wide-ranging and poignantly self-reflexive ethnography of Meili, a Dong village in Guizhou, moves adeptly from dominant, mainstream perspectives on what constitutes Dong “heritage” to the deeply intimate and individual experiences of gendered expectations, social obligations, and economic pressures facing rural ethnic minorities in China today. It is also a significant contribution to studies of conflict, kinship, and generational changes in a place targeted for “development” by local, state, and global forces. From the analysis of architectural renderings to a detailed and deeply personal account of Dong funerary rituals, this book illuminates how profoundly the heritage industry and its associated discourses of tradition have pervaded into the everyday lives and identities of Meili villagers, especially in an era of declining rural populations and increasing political investments in heritage projects across the country.” (Jenny Chio, Author of A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China)<br>
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“In ‘The Invention of Tradition in China’ Suvi Rautio takes the reader on an evocative journey into the heart of a Dong community in Guizhou Province, where personal and shared quests for progress interweave with the intricacies of heritage-in-the-making. Along the way, Rautio introduces the reader to the diverse and situated lives of those who navigate a terrain marked by modernity and heritage—from bureaucrats and planners to renowned artists and village leaders. With a strikingly nuanced methodology and self-reflexive approach, Rautio avoids the traps of ahistoricism and exoticism in examining the perseverance and transformation of skills, practices, and objects in the Dong community of Meili. Instead, she offers a pioneering approach to understanding how heritage projects are negotiated and lived. I highly recommend it!” (Charlotte Bruckermann, Author of Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China)</p>
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“In ‘The Invention of Tradition in China’ Suvi Rautio takes the reader on an evocative journey into the heart of a Dong community in Guizhou Province, where personal and shared quests for progress interweave with the intricacies of heritage-in-the-making. Along the way, Rautio introduces the reader to the diverse and situated lives of those who navigate a terrain marked by modernity and heritage—from bureaucrats and planners to renowned artists and village leaders. With a strikingly nuanced methodology and self-reflexive approach, Rautio avoids the traps of ahistoricism and exoticism in examining the perseverance and transformation of skills, practices, and objects in the Dong community of Meili. Instead, she offers a pioneering approach to understanding how heritage projects are negotiated and lived. I highly recommend it!” (Charlotte Bruckermann, Author of Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China)</p>
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