London. Reaktion Books, 2018. 254pp, references, index, dustjacket. Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China's `national minorities'. Based on detailed research, including the author's first-hand fieldwork in several minority areas, it introduces the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 1998. Map, black and white photographs, glossary, bibliography, index, xxxvi + 266pp, paperback. The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society - Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government... More
Seattle. University of Washington Press. 2005. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xi +255pp, appendices, bibliography, index, dustjacket. In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha... More
