Creative Belonging

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Conceptualizing "Creative Belonging": Towards an Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Paradigm of Chinese Studies

Part I: Imagining the "Qiang" in Chinese National Narratives and Minority Scholarly Debates
Chapter 1: From "Barbarians" to "Brothers" and Cultural Guardians: Race, Ethnicity, and the Invention of the "Qiang" in Chinese Textual Traditions and National Discourses
Chapter 2: "King Yu Rose from West Qiang": Minority Scholarly Production and the Cultural Politics of Imaginary Ancestry in the Qiang Regions of China

Part II: Visualizing the "Qiang" in Cinema, the Built Environment, and Tourism
Chapter 3: A Village's Affair with the World: Visual Culture and Representing the Qiang Native Village in Transnational Cinema and Tourism
Chapter 4: The Run-away Minority Bride: Fluid Indigeneity and Ethnographic Poetics in Qiang Indigenous Cinema

Part III: Reconstituting the "Qiang" in Literary Voices and Cultural Activism in the Himalayas
Chapter 5: Between the Languishing Ethnic Mother and the Bewitching "Poisonous Cat:" Gender and Commercialization in Contemporary Chinese Minority Literature
Chapter 6: Paradise Recrafted: The Problems of Secular Modernity in Chinese Multiethnic Literature and Village-Level Cultural Activism

Conclusion: The "Qiang" as Concept, History, and People

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China Studies; Chinese Studies; East Asian Studies; Asian Studies; ethnic minority studies; multiculturalism; indigeneity; global indigenous studies; critical race and ethnicity studies; literature and film; interdisciplinary studies; critical theory; critical humanities; cultural studies