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Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award
This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier.
This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier.
Price: $243.00
Pages: 494
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Religion in Chinese Societies
Publication Date:
23 June 2016
ISBN: 9789004319226
Format: Hardcover
"Contesting the Yellow Dragon presents a masterful account of the mutual accommodation between Tibetan and Chinese religious traditions in Southwest China as seen in the processes by which the scenic area of Huanglong was transformed into a World Heritage site. The authors vividly portray the paramount place of religion in Chinese life, which today encompasses roles played by tourists and local women. This book will be of tremendous benefit to scholars in fields like history, anthropology, religious studies, etc."
Paul R. Katz, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
"[This volume] brings a much-needed investigation of the Sino-Tibetan area. [...] Groundbreaking and fascinating to scholars of religion as well as of culture, modern ecology, and tourism, this work serves as an important contribution to the understanding of relations between the areas and cultures of China."
Linda L. Lam-Easton, California State University, Northridge, Choice (January 2017)
Paul R. Katz, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
"[This volume] brings a much-needed investigation of the Sino-Tibetan area. [...] Groundbreaking and fascinating to scholars of religion as well as of culture, modern ecology, and tourism, this work serves as an important contribution to the understanding of relations between the areas and cultures of China."
Linda L. Lam-Easton, California State University, Northridge, Choice (January 2017)
Xiaofei Kang received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is Associate Professor of Religion at the George Washington University. She has published on religion, ethnicity, tourism, and gender, including The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China (Columbia, 2006).
Donald Sutton (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published books on 20th century warlordism and popular religion in Taiwan, and numerous articles on the 18th century Miao in west Hunan and on ritual in past and recent Chinese societies.
Donald Sutton (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published books on 20th century warlordism and popular religion in Taiwan, and numerous articles on the 18th century Miao in west Hunan and on ritual in past and recent Chinese societies.