[[abstract]]The ethnic minorities of upland Southwest China-located accross an enormous mountainous region stretching from the Himalayas in the West to the South China Sea in the East, and parsed by all the major rivers of South and Southwest China-are now accessible to English language readers in a rush of excellent yet disquieting monograph-length ethongraphies. Although ethnography as a genre for"writing culture" evokes the authors as well as the authored,these new ethnographies nevertheless detail critical realities that have followed the 1979 reforms,where ethnic minorities of this region of the People's Republic of China(hereafter PRC) are being incorporated in new ways into the state,just as the the public discourse of the nation is itself becoming more avowedly multicultural.
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