Stevan Harrell Books
Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers
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A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms o...
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Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
"The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Al...
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Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan
This anthropological study of a workers' village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork condu...
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