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Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: Language Ideology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong's Qhuab Kev (Showing the Way) / Huang Shu-li -- Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning -- The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on the Border of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang -- Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors / Lian Ruizhi -- From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority: The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan / Xie Xiaohui -- The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of Native Subjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / He Xi -- The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor, Connect to the State / David Faure -- The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production and Social Reproduction / James Wilkerson -- Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland / Ho Ts'ui-p'ing.

Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite -- 2 Chief, God, or National Hero? -- 3 The Venerable Flying Mountain -- 4 Surviving Conquest in Dali -- 5 From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority -- 6 The Past Tells It Differently -- 7 The Tusi That Never Was -- 8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom -- 9 Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland -- Contributors -- Index.