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Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders
Paper, 216 pages, 18 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13527-6
$26.50
/ £18.50
October, 2005
Cloth, 216 pages, 18 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13526-9
$73.50
/ £50.50
"I recommend to everyone to read the book... It is indeed a vivid and beautifully told ethnography." — Emily Sarasvati Dharmapanna, Tai Culture
"Touching and beautifully written... Sarah L. M. Davis has provided a path-breaking study of the logic of borders." — Alexander Horstmann, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
"An exemplary study of cross-border culture. Davis's original and deeply
probing account of state-sponsored musical culture and of the musical
practices that both transcend and subvert it deserves, like the music it
depicts, to travel widely." — James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology
Yale University
"Song and Silence is a delightful and surprising book, at once playful, scholarly and lyrical." — Jonathan Spence, Yale University
"Song and Silence is a fascinating glimpse at a very interesting part of
China that has increasingly become the focus of environmental and minority
issues in the ever-evolving multi-ethnic state that is the PRC.Davis presents a well-researched and lucidly written examination of the complex inter-play between Han Chinese and Beijing and the increasingly vulnerable minority communities in the Himalayan foothills of Southern Yunnan whose historic isolation is now being irremediably breached by tourism, commerce and the media." — Orville Schell, University of California, Berkeley, author of Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Technocrats, and Bohemians Grasp for Power in China