1st Edition
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier
By Jianxiong Ma
Copyright 2013
272 Pages
90 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
90 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
90 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system, with the highest suicide rate in the world, large scale human trafficking of their women,... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Escape of E Sha Buddha: Ethnicity and Political Movements in the Black River Valley 3. Death Threat and Self-negation: Tension and Pressure in the Spiritual World 4. Marriage and Land Property: Bilateral Non-lineal Kinship and Communal Authority 5. 'To Become Wives of the Han': Conflicts, Marriage Squeeze and Resettlement of Women 6. Poverty Reduction and Education 7. Suicide as a Cultural Response and an Indicator of the Change of Social Relationships 8. Concluding Remarks
Biography
Jianxiong Ma is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
"The book accomplishes its task of bringing depth to a reform contemporary Lahu community largely by the strength of its ethnographic description and the thoughtfulness of its narrative." - Kevin Caffrey, Harvard University, USA, China Information 2013
