Autonomy, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Southwestern China The State Turned Upside Down

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This book examines the three different channels by which the Chinese state reaches out to ethnic communities: autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty.

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Introduction: Performing Unity
Political, Cultural, and Economic Unity
The Teleology of the State: Top-Down Regional Ethnic Autonomy
Performing Ethnicity: Politics of Representation in Multi-Ethnic Guilin
Silencing the Poor: The Statist-Liberal Incapacity in Western Hunan
The State Turned Upside Down
The State as a Borderline Identity: Setting the Jing Ethnicity in Dongxing
Imagined Genealogy: Behind the Cultural Formation of Huishui's Buyi Nationality
Cement or Excrement? Autonomous Ecological Thinking in Xiaoki's Poverty Discourse
Out of Place
3 + 1 + 1 = 1: Disempowerment in Multi-Ethnic Autonomous Longsheng
Lost Agency for Change: The Diasporic Identity in Yizhou's Shui Villages
Riding The Citizenship
Assimilation into Mulao Consciousness: The Rise of Participatory Rigor in Luocheng
Living with the State: Multiplying Ethnic Yao Narratives in Jinxiu
Learning to Be Rational: The Drive toward Marketization in Fenghuang
Conclusion: From Unity to Harmony-Progress or Regression?
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