 | Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China Subjects: Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Shi -- Government relations; Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Shi -- Economic conditions; Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Shi -- Social life and customs; Post-communisim -- China -- Lijiang Shi; ; Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world. Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California. |
