Hello everyone, I hope you are all getting ready for and excited about our upcoming program in Yunnan! To get the ball rolling with the blog, I’m sharing some recommended resources – websites, readings, films – about Yunnan. If others, particularly our China fellows, have other Yunnan resources to recommend please share them here via the student portal. Reflections also welcomed!
Useful Websites:
GoKunming: http://www.gokunming.com/
English language information about Yunnan plus weekly events, classifieds and forums.
Yunnan Explorer: http://www.yunnanexplorer.com/
Includes an extensive bibliography of books about Yunnan: http://www.yunnanexplorer.com/bibliography/
Selected Bibliography:
Atwill, David G. The Chinese Sultanate : Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005.
Chao, Emily. “Hegemony, Agency, and Re-presenting the Past: The Invention of Dongba Culture Among the Naxi of Southwest China.” In Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan, edited by Melissa J. Brown, 208–239. Berkeley: University of California Press., 1996.
Clarke, Samuel. Among the Tribes in Southwest China. 1911. book review: http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/2280/book_review_among_the_tribes_in_southwest_china
Davies, Henry Rodolph. Yün-nan: The Link Between India and the Yangtze. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Fei, Xiaotong. Earthbound China a Study of Rural Economy in Yunnan. Rev. English ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.
Fiskesjö, Magnus. “Participant Intoxication and Self-other Dynamics in the Wa Context.” Asia Pac.J.Anthropol.Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11, no. 2 (2010): 111–127.
Gladney, Dru C. “Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring Majority/Minority Identities.” Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 1 (1994): 92–123. [This isn’t Yunnan-specific but provides a glimpse into the politics surrounding minority identification in China].
Goullart, Peter. The Forgotten Kingdom. Olympia Press, 2010. book review: http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/2290/book_review_forgotten_kingdom
available online: http://pratyeka.org/books/forgotten_kingdom/
Harrell, Stevan, ed. Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers. Seattle.: University of Washington Press., 1995. [This edited volume provides an excellent overview of minority issues].
Hillman, Ben. “Paradise Under Construction: Minorities, Myths and Modernity in Northwest Yunnan.” Asian Ethnicity 4, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 175–188.
Hyde, Sandra Teresa. Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China. University of California Press, 2007.
———. “Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang.” In China Urban: Ethnographies of the Contemporary Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press., 2001.
Litzinger, Ralph A. “Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past.” In Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Michaud, Jean. “Incidental” Ethnographers : French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930. Vol. 33. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2007.
Mitchell, Sam. Ethnic Minority Issues in Yunnan. Yunnan Fine Arts Pub. House, 2004. [Sam Mitchell was the academic director of the School for International Training Yunnan program for many years. These two volumes are compilations of students’ work].
Mitchell, Sam, ed. Yunnan Through Foreign Students’ Eyes: Volume 1, Tourism and Development in Yunnan. Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2003.
Mueggler, Erik. The Age of Wild Ghosts : Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China. Berkeley.: University of California Press., 2001.
Mullaney, Thomas S. “Ethnic Classification Writ Large The 1954 Yunnan Province Ethnic Classification Project and Its Foundations in Republican-Era Taxonomic Thought.” China Information 18, no. 2 (July 1, 2004): 207–241.
Ningsheng, Wang. “Changes in Ethnic Identity Among Han Immigrants in the Wa Hills from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries.” Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11, no. 2 (2010): 128–141.
Rock, Joseph F. China on the Wild Side: Explorations in the China-Tibet Borderlands. Volume 1: Yunnan and Sichuan. Caravam Press, 2007.
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles. The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China. Harvard Univ. Press, 1948.
Yang, Bin. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE.-Twentieth Century BCE.). Columbia University Press, 2008.
Yin, Shaoting. People and Forests : Yunnan Swidden Agriculture in Human-ecological Perspective. Kunming: Yunnan Education Pub. House, 2001.
Yunnan Films:
Yunfest is a biannual documentary film festival. You should be able to view a listing of the films screened here: http://www.yunfest.org/e-last.htm
Films:
(Input the Chinese characters into Google, Baidu or your university’s Library Search. Some of these should be available online).
Ghost Town (废城) directed by Zhao Dayong, see trailer: http://www.lanternfilms.com.hk/2009/02/ghost-town/
Kora (转山): After the death of his older brother, Shuhao decides to cycle from Lijiang to Lhasa. You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVhdRFQEDI
Sacrificed Youth (青春祭), plot summary: http://contemporary_chinese_culture.academic.ru/665/Sacrificed_Youth
The Park (公园) directed by Yin Lichuan, plot summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071291/plotsummary
King of the Children (孩子王) directed by Chen Kaige, plot summary: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/132137/King-of-the-Children/overview
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (千里走单骑) directed by Zhang Yimou: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437447/
Cherries (樱桃) directed by Zhang Jiabei, plot summary: http://meinte-film.blogspot.com/2008/06/cherries-yingtao-china-2007.html