Qiang between Han and Tibet: a Historical Anthropological Study of the Qiang People in Western Sichuan
by Wang Mingke
About This Novel
This book is one of the representative works of historical anthropologist Wang Mingke. The author Wang Mingke has repeatedly visited Qiang settlements in the high mountain valleys of the Minjiang and Mianjiang river basins in western Sichuan Province for more than ten years, including Wenchuan, Maoxian, Lixian, Beichuan, Songpan and other places, and conducted multi-point, mobile field investigations. Based on the field texts obtained from the investigation and rich historical archives, Wang Mingke used the "Qiang" as a case to deeply discuss the origin of "nation" and the integration and changes of China's marginalized ethnic groups, and refined creative historical anthropological theoretical summaries such as "a cut to curse", "poison cat", "heroic ancestors and brother nations". The book is divided into three parts: "Society", "History" and "Culture", which respectively discuss the identity and distinction in the social structure of the Qiang people, the exemplary narrative of the Qiang people's history and the formation of historical mentality, and the cultural reconstruction and performance under ethnic identity.
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