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.
- ISBN10 9004319239
- ISBN13 9789004319233
- Publish Date 12 September 2016 (first published 23 June 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Brill
- Format eBook
- Pages 508
- Language English