24x15cm, vi,212 pp., PAPERBACK. Contains 11 papers. Includes: Provinces, City Gods and Salt Merchants: Provincial Identity in Ming and Qing Dynasty Hangzhou / Susanna Thornton ; Becoming Cantonese. The Ming Dynasty Transition / David Faure; Literary, Ethnic or Territorial Definitions of Guangdong Culture in the Late Qing and the Early Republic / May-bo Ching; Xinjiang: In Search of an Identity /Laura Newby; The Kings Who Could Fly Without Their Heads: 'Local' Culture in China and the Case of the Hmong / Nicholas Tapp; The Image and Identity of the Shanghainese / Xiong Yuezhi; Creating a Shanghai Identity - Late Qing Courtesan Handbooks and the Formation of the New Citizen / Catherine Yeh; Women, Work and Identity: A Study of two 1930s Novels on the Opera Singer / Mau-sang Ng; Local Identity in Chinese Fiction and Fiction of the Native Soil 'Xiangtu Wenxue' / Tao Tao Liu.; Local Religion and Village Identity / Stephen Feuchtwang; Remade in Hong Kong: Weaving Into the Chinese Cultural Tapestry / Helen F. Siu. Seller Inventory # 016327

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Title: Unity and Diversity : Local Cultures and ...

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: orig.wrappers

Condition: Minor rubbing. Bookplate. VG.

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This book examines the evolution of the local identity in China from historical times to the present day. It traces the expression of local identity in religion and myth, in the construction of the provincial character, in the growth of cities, in literature, in economic development and in the expansion of the Chinese state. It argues that the growth of a local identity was part and parcel of the evolution of a national character. But, it notes also that the transforming of the local identity with the extension of the state has often come with a sense of nostalgia, a yearning for a world that has perhaps never been.

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David Faure works on the history of Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta and Chinese business history. He is currently University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Tao Tao Liu works on modern Chinese fiction and Chinese poetry. She is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese and Fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford.

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