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Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes
- Glimpses of China's Hidden Past
Engelsk
Bogcover for Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes af Robert J. Antony, 9781538169322
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
378
ISBN-13:
9781538169322
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1538169320
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 jan 2023
Størrelse i cm:
15,9 x 23,7 x 3,2
Oplagsdato:
30 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

- Glimpses of China's Hidden Past
Engelsk
Hardback 2023
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History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness as revealed in people’s everyday lives and as expressed through customary rituals, sociocultural conventions, language, and the complex symbolism of common human experiences. The focus is on ethnic groups and individuals who have been routinely discriminated against in mainstream society and treated by officials as rogues and criminals. They were denizens of the underworld of “rivers and lakes” (jianghu), a sociocultural category that includes bandits, sorcerers, conmen, and prostitutes. To get at their silent history the author spent decades conducting field research in rural areas of southern China, collecting rarely used unconventional sources—folklore, legends, myths, rumors, and hearsay—that reveal nuggets of new information and insights not found in the conventional sources in libraries and archives. This book challenges many commonplace assumptions about how academics write history by offering alternative possibilities for China’s past.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
378
ISBN-13:
9781538169322
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1538169320
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 jan 2023
Størrelse i cm:
15,9 x 23,7 x 3,2
Oplagsdato:
30 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):
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