China's New Socialist Countryside Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this case study examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan. In this highly mountainous, sparsely populated area live the Lisu, Nu, and Dulong (Drung) people, who unti...

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Main Author: Harwood, Russell (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Washington Press 2013
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