{"product_id":"lijiang-stories-emily-chao-9780295992235","title":"Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China","description":"\u003cp\u003eLijiang, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Chao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295992239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295992235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Emily Chao","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245037580543,"sku":"9780295992235","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a269505f-ce7c-45d0-99ec-d82422fbe3a7.jpg?v=1693925760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lijiang-stories-emily-chao-9780295992235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}