Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey

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Ethnographic journey through China's transformation.

If you're intrigued by China's evolution from a rural society to a modern powerhouse, Helen Siu's "Tracing China" will give you an enlightening perspective. Her work uniquely integrates decades of fieldwork with anthropological analysis, offering a deep dive into how historical currents shape everyday lives. It's a compelling read for anyone interested in the nuances of socio-political change and the human stories within it.

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Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey

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ISBN: 9789888083732
Authors: Helen F. Siu
Date of Publication: 2016-08-09
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Sociology, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.25
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Tracing China’s journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China’s global reach and Hong Kong’s cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine political tumults transforming into everyday lives, and fathom the depths of human drama amid China’s frenetic momentum toward modernity. Highlighting complicity, Siu portrays how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals―laden with historical baggage―venture forward. But have they victimized themselves in the process? This essay collection, informed by critical social theories and shaped by careful scrutiny of fieldwork and archival texts, is woven by key historical/anthropological themes―culture, history, power, place-making, and identity formation. Siu stresses process and contingency and argues that culture and society are constructed through human actions with nuanced meanings, moral imagination, and contested interests. Challenging the notion that social/political changes are mere linear historical progressions, she traces layers of the past in present realities.
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Ethnographic journey through China's transformation.

If you're intrigued by China's evolution from a rural society to a modern powerhouse, Helen Siu's "Tracing China" will give you an enlightening perspective. Her work uniquely integrates decades of fieldwork with anthropological analysis, offering a deep dive into how historical currents shape everyday lives. It's a compelling read for anyone interested in the nuances of socio-political change and the human stories within it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.