Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 320 pages
• Published by: Oxford University Press, USA December 28, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0198234139
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198234135
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Review

"This book is an important contribution to the study of Inner Mongolia and Sneath offers an illuminating description of pastoralists who have preserved certain aspects of their traditional culture despite major changes brought about by the Chinese state. Sneath's insights on the recent history of Inner Mongolia provide a useful study for Mongolian specialists as well as anyone interested in cultural change."--Journal of the Mongolia Society


Product Description
Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. This book charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolian minority there. It looks at the effects of five decades of social engineering by the Chinese state, and explores the role of economic forms, ritual, symbolism, and ideology in the transformations and continuities of life on the inner Mongolian steppe.