Changing Inner Mongolia Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State

Name: Changing Inner Mongolia Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State
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ISBN: 9780198234135

ISBN-10: 0198234139

ISBN-13: 9780198234135

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Sneath

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Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about the region. This book is an attempt to redress the balance. It is a study of the effect of decades of social engineering on a Minority Nationality in China. David Sneath charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolians of Inner Mongolia since they became the subjects of the Chinese Communist state, and examines the society that has emerged since the abolition of the Communes in the 1980s. He explores the history of local economic and political forms to illuminate the transformations and continuities of life in pastoral Mongolian society, and offers an account that includes both the swings of…

Book details

List price: $265.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.53" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

David Sneath is director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge University and a lecturer in social anthropology. He conducted doctoral research in Inner Mongolia in the 1980s and since then has carried out research in Mongolia and other parts of Inner Asia.