Marginalization in China: Recasting Minority Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Recasting Minority Politics in China....Pages 1-19
Reaching out for the Ladder of Success: “Outsiders” and the Civil Examination in Late Imperial China....Pages 21-34
Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China....Pages 35-48
Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in South China....Pages 49-66
The Transnational Redress Campaign for Chinese Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Shanxi Province....Pages 67-93
The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Stepladder of Social Ascent....Pages 95-121
Feminization, Recognition, and the Cosmological in Xishuangbanna....Pages 123-143
Re-Presenting Women’s Identities: Recognition and Representation of Rural Chinese Women....Pages 145-164
“This Is My Mother’s Land!”: An Indigenous Woman Speaks Out....Pages 165-186
Making Rights Claims Visible: Intersectionality, NGO Activism, and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong....Pages 187-209
Institutionalizing the Representation of Religious Minorities in Post-1997 Hong Kong....Pages 211-235
The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou....Pages 237-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-263