Marginalization in China: recasting minority politics/ Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Making Minorities in China Siu-Keung Cheung, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Lida V. Nedilsky * Reaching out for the Ladder of Success: “Outsiders” and the Civil Examination in Late Imperial China Wing-Kin Puk * Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China Robert J. Antony * Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in South China Joseph Tse-Hei Lee * The Transnational Redress Campaign for Chinese Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Shanxi Province Yuki Terazawa * The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Stepladder of Social Ascent Ming Xia * Feminisation, Recognition and the Cosmological in Xishuangbanna Anouska Komlosy * Re-Presenting Women’s Identities: Recognition and Representation of Rural Chinese Women Sharon R. Wesoky * “This Is My Mother’s Land!” An Indigenous Woman Speaks Out Siu-Keung Cheung * Making Rights Claims Visible: Intersectionality, NGO Activism, and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong Lisa Fischler * Institutionalizing the Representation of Religious Minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong Lida V. Nedilsky * The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou Kam-Yee Law, Kim-Ming Lee