Local Traditions, Community Building, and Cultural Adaptation in Reform Era Rural China

This dissertation examines the so-called revival of local traditions in reform-era China. It compares the different paths of adapting local traditions to market transitions and a changing political landscape. Three questions guide this study: 1) given state suppression of tradition, to what extent i...

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Main Author: Wu, Hsin-Chao
Other Authors: Patterson, Orlando
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11791
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070033