Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State

摘要: Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about region. This book is an attempt to redress balance. It a study effect decades social engineering on Minority Nationality in China. David Sneath charts recent history pastoral Mongolians Mongolia since they became subjects Communist state, and examines society that emerged abolition Communes 1980s. He explores local economic political forms illuminate transformations continuities life Mongolian society, offers account includes both swings national regional government policy experiences individuals subject those changes. By taking historical perspective his reveals underlying modes symbolism, notions domestic organization paternalistic authority, have remained fundamental pastoralism Mongolia. suggests indigenous mechanism for inequality dependency one helped shape nomadic sociopolitical order past.