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(0)Thomas Heberer
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804095Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book AwardMountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group) practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor. Their traditional society was stratified...