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Author(s):	Yuqing Yang

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1498502970
Pages:	262	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The Confucian notion of Harmony with difference (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagates the quest for a pluralist harmony between cultural and ethnic components of society. In an attempt to examine a range of responses to this state-envisioned ideal of accommodating ethnic differences, this book analyzes the literary and cultural discourses that surround three minority regions in Southwest China  Dali, which was once the location of the ancient Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms  the homeland of the matrilineal Mosuo known as the Country of Women  and the Tibetan areas associated with utopian Shangri-La. This book borrows Foucaults concept of heterotopia to address the contradictory and often simultaneously existing views of the minority region as rich treasure house of tradition and as intractable barrier to modern development which combine to give rise to productive tensions in scholastic and artistic creations. Through reconstituting and performing the myths and legends of or about minority culture, the representations of the three places turn into heterotopias which are posed between the mythical and the real in different ways. Functioning as a self-reflective mirror, they simultaneously offer images of the actual habitats of the ethnic other which have been subject to socialist projects of modernity, and become a viable means by which to exert material effects on the real landscape. Products of a fascination with alternative social spaces, the three mystified lands all contain conceptualizations of harmony  be it spiritual, gender-based or ecological  that are conceivably absent in the imperfect actuality of the Chinese heartland. In conclusion, these aesthetically constructed spaces of the other negotiate and enrich the discourse of Harmony with difference, reacting to ethnic politics in PRC history and creating an audience that grows attentive to the traditions of minorities.

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