This book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of Songpan and the nearby religious center of Huanglong, or Yellow Dragon. Combining historical research and fieldwork, Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine the cultural politics of northern Sichuan from early Ming through Communist revolution to the age of global tourism, bringing to light creative local adaptations in culture, ethnicity and religion as successive regimes in Beijing struggle to control and transform this distant frontier.
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Acknowledgments vii List of Figures and Photographs x Abbreviations xi Note on Ming shilu and Qing shilu xii Note on Tibetan Terms xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Garrison City in the Ming: Indigenes and the State in Greater Songpan 16 Chapter 2 Qing Songpan: Recovery, Over-extension and Disaster 69 Chapter 3 Guns, Gold, Gown, and Poppy: Ethnic Frontier in a Failing Republic 123 Chapter 4 Sharing a Sacred Center: Conch Mountain of the East, Yellow Dragon, and Chinese and Tibetan Culture 171 Chapter 5 Songpan, the State and Social Revolution, 1950–78 223 Chapter 6 Opening Up the Borderland I: The Politics of Tourist Development and Environmental Protection 277 Chapter 7 Opening Up the Borderland II: Ethnicity for Tourists 311 Chapter 8 Contesting the Yellow Dragon in the Age of Reform: Local Initiatives and Responses 334 Chapter 9 Ethnoreligion, Ethnic Identity and Regional Consciousness at Songpan 375 Conclusion 410 Bibliography 425 Appendix: Religious Activities in the Songpan Region 457 Tibetan Glossary 468 Index 471
