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Article: The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
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- The China Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, by Charlene E. Makley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xviii + 374 pp. US$60.00/£35.00 (hardcover), US$24.95/£14.95 (paperback).
Charlene Makley's The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China contributes to the growing body of anthropological literature focused on China's minority populations. The Violence of Liberation follows the trend established by these earlier works in drawing our attention to the gendering of ethnicity in modern China. Makley, however, goes beyond previous works through her detailed focus on the contested production of both ...