This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations.
This book explores how Muslim revivalists in China’s Qinghai Province employ individual agency to reconcile transnational notions of religious orthodo..
This book explores the vigorous film cultures of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong from the perspective of youth culture. The book relates this imp..
The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uighurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into v..
There are billions of internet users in China, and this number is continually growing. This book looks at the various purposes of this internet use, a..
Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers ..
This book considers a range of ecological risks and disasters and how they are managed in both China and Europe. It examines how far risks and disaste..
This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chi..
How do migrant Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia understand and represent ‘Chineseness’ or China in their creative works, academic writings, and..
Drawing upon extensive life history interviews, this book makes the voices of ordinary women workers heard and applies feminist perspectives on women ..
Central Asia and Xinjiang, the far northwestern province of China, are of increasing international importance. This book provides a comprehensive over..
This book, based on extensive original research including long-term anthropological research among the Lahu, provides an overview of the traditional w..
This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. Th..