Anthropology of Ascendant China

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<p>This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China¿s ascendancy both within China itself and beyond.</p><p>It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyses China¿s multifaceted transformations in the modern era ¿ both within Chinese society, as well as in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a