Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects

by Dru C. Gladney and Gladney

Book Overview

Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han groups as marginalized minorities. Dru C. Gladney challenges this simplistic view, arguing instead that the very oppositions of majority and minority, primitive and modern, are historically constructed and are belied by examination of such disenfranchised groups as Muslims, minorities, or gendered others.

Gladney locates China and Chinese culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226297756
• ISBN13: 9780226297750
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"