Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Gentry Is a Full Soldier of This Cultural Order
Gentry is interesting not because they are older you know they say they are older keepers I mean as a person I'm I'm tended to be kind of slightly anarchic and style but the gentry is charming for me because of their way of knowing. They don't start their understanding about life with big categories and set up because if you do that you will never understand what the peasants really think, he says. The very important rural revolutionaries in the 1920s 1930s 1940s were children of gentry's according to Gwyneth Paltrow.
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