1st Edition

Cowboys And Cultivators The Chinese Of Inner Mongolia

By Burton Pasternak Copyright 1993
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is about Han Chinese who dared to cross over the Great Wall of China, to make a life for themselves on the northern frontier. It compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers of Inner Mongolia.

    Preface -- Introduction -- Economy, Labor, and Family in Inner Mongolia -- Cultivators: The Chinese Way -- Chinese Farmers: Tranquillity and Middle Villages -- Chinese Farmers: Economy and Society -- People of Tranquillity -- More Farm Households: Weak Labor -- Pastoralists: Another Kind of Society -- Chinese Herders: Sandhill and Great Pasture -- Chinese Herders: Economy and Society -- Pastoral Families: The Haves -- Families at the Turing Point -- Pastoral Families: The Have Nots -- Conclusions: Ecology and Society on the Inner Mongolian Frontier