Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands by Legerton, Colin

Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781556528149)

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Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands by Legerton, Colin

Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands

$24.95
Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands by Legerton, Colin

Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of the country to meet the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe.

In Invisible China, they engage in a heated discussion of human rights with Daur and Ewenki village cadres; celebrate Muhammad's birthday with aging Dongxiang hajjis who recount the government's razing of their mosque; attend mass with old Catholic Kinh fishermen at a church that has been forty years without a priest; hike around high-altitude Lugu Lake to farm with the matrilineal Mosuo women; and descend into a dry riverbed to hunt for jade with Muslim Uyghur merchants. As they uncover surprising facts about China's hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society, they discover the social ramifications of inconsistent government policies--and some deep human truths as well.

Author: Colin Legerton, Jacob Rawson
ISBN-10: 1556528140
ISBN-13: 9781556528149
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.28w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/09/2009 pg. 39
Booklist 04/01/2009 pg. 9
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2009
By Colin Legerton
By Colin Legerton
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Colin Legerton graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Chinese language and literature. He spent a year in Urumqi studying Uyghur and mentoring western China's only baseball team and later produced Diamond in the Dunes, a documentary film that tells their story. He has worked as a Chinese-English translator and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Central Asian studies at Indiana University, with a focus on Uyghur literature.

Jacob Rawson has lived and studied in Yokohama and Beijing. After graduating from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in Chinese and Japanese languages, he taught at a high school in rural South Korea as a Fulbright fellow. Now back in the States, he has given presentations on China's ethnic minorities and the Korean minority in Japan. He is working toward a master's degree in Chinese and Korean linguistics at the University of Washington.

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