- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Antony Rowe Publishing Services; 1st edition (Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905200374
- ISBN-13: 978-1905200375
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,727,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Introducing the Tujia People of China:
Hidden among the precipitous Wuling Mountains, just south of the Yangtze Three Gorges, live the Tujia, an ethnic group numbering eight million, with a long and fascinating history.
Descendants of the ancient Ba people, they lived an essentially independent existence for nearly two millenia. Under clans of feudal chieftains,one of which held sway for a staggering 800 years, they developed a highly distinctive culture - including crying before weddings, dancing at funerals and venerating the white tiger.
Then in the 1730s the Imperial Court in Peking finally gained the upper hand over them. The subsequent 300 years of assimilation by mainstream Chinese culture has taken its toll. The Tujia, pragmatic by nature, have always been able to adapt to new situations. Today, their desire to benefit from the educational and economic benefits of integration into modern China threatens the very survival of their traditional culture.
This book provides the first in-depth English introduction to the Tujia ethnic group and offers an overview of its birth, maturation and ongoing re-integration. As well as charting the broad themes of this process, the book contains numerous cameos that focus on the experiences of individuals from all walks of life.
Hidden among the precipitous Wuling Mountains, just south of the Yangtze Three Gorges, live the Tujia, an ethnic group numbering eight million, with a long and fascinating history.
Descendants of the ancient Ba people, they lived an essentially independent existence for nearly two millenia. Under clans of feudal chieftains,one of which held sway for a staggering 800 years, they developed a highly distinctive culture - including crying before weddings, dancing at funerals and venerating the white tiger.
Then in the 1730s the Imperial Court in Peking finally gained the upper hand over them. The subsequent 300 years of assimilation by mainstream Chinese culture has taken its toll. The Tujia, pragmatic by nature, have always been able to adapt to new situations. Today, their desire to benefit from the educational and economic benefits of integration into modern China threatens the very survival of their traditional culture.
This book provides the first in-depth English introduction to the Tujia ethnic group and offers an overview of its birth, maturation and ongoing re-integration. As well as charting the broad themes of this process, the book contains numerous cameos that focus on the experiences of individuals from all walks of life.
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One family's big adventure / making a cultural archive,
This review is from: Imperial Tiger Hunters: An Introduction to the Tujia People of China (Paperback)
Imperial Tiger Hunters presents a significant 'glimpse' into the culture and cultural evolution of a large, but isolated ethnic community in China, but is readily accessible to the layman. On one level, it presents the adventures of the 'family trip of a lifetime' - including many amusing and interesting anecdotes. On another level, the history of the group, together with the way in which the modern world is inexhorably 'advancing' (?) and consuming is clearly presented. Overall, the work is in the nature of an archive, aiming to preserve and document something that will disappear within a generation. The book will be of particular value to readers with linguistic interests.
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