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Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration and Bibliography -- 1. Introduction: Rethinking "the West" -- 2. King Mu (Mu Tianzi) andthe Journey to the West -- 3. "Illusionary" and "Realistic" Geographies -- 4. Easternizing the West, Westernizing the East -- 5. Chaos and the West -- 6. "Western Territories" (Xiyu),India, and "South Sea" (Nanhai) -- 7. Beyond the Seas:Other Kingdoms and Other Materials -- 8. Islands, Intermediaries,and "Europeanization" -- 9. Conclusion:Towards Other Perspectives of the Other -- Postscript -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

AbstractThis article is a research report involving three anthropological studies conducted during the period of "Kuige" and their "re-studies." By narrating the project, I set forth my views on the connections and differences between Chinese anthropological explorations from two historical periods. These anthropological explorations refer to the study of Lu Village conducted by Fei Xiaotong, that of "West Town" (Xizhou) by Francis L. K. Hsu, and that of "Pai-IPai" (Dai) villages by Tien Ju-Kang. They were all completed in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Each writer extracted a framework to analyze the land system, ancestor worship, and the relationship between humans and gods from the writer's own field experience. Despite the difference in research methods, all three studies noticed the cultural differences between rural society and modernity. Since 2000, Peking University and Yunnan Minzu University have launched a "Province-university Cooperation Project." During the project, a research team formed of several young scholars revisited Lu Village, "West Town" (Xizhou), and Namu Village. These writers' works were based on the data acquired in their fieldwork and drew upon the opinions raised by global anthropologists on "re-study" in recent decades. Considering the dual effects of social change and shifts in academic concepts around "follow-up research," the scholars put forward several points of view with their ethnographies, which all featured the characteristics of inheritance and reflection. Based on the results of the three "re-studies," this article emphasizes the importance of the study of public rituals for the research of rural society. This article also attempts to re-examine the methodology of "human ecology," which profoundly impacts Chinese anthropology and sociology.

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world