Cowboys And Cultivators

The Chinese Of Inner Mongolia

Burton Pasternak (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-15876-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is about Han Chinese who dared to cross over the Great Wall of China, to make a life for themselves on the northern frontier. It compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers of Inner Mongolia.

Inhalt

Preface -- Introduction -- Economy, Labor, and Family in Inner Mongolia -- Cultivators: The Chinese Way -- Chinese Farmers: Tranquillity and Middle Villages -- Chinese Farmers: Economy and Society -- People of Tranquillity -- More Farm Households: Weak Labor -- Pastoralists: Another Kind of Society -- Chinese Herders: Sandhill and Great Pasture -- Chinese Herders: Economy and Society -- Pastoral Families: The Haves -- Families at the Turing Point -- Pastoral Families: The Have Nots -- Conclusions: Ecology and Society on the Inner Mongolian Frontier

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 225 mm
• Gewicht: 560 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-367-15876-0 / 0367158760
• ISBN-13: 978-0-367-15876-7 / 9780367158767
• Zustand: Neuware