The focus of this chapter is the phenomenon of globalization as a contemporary manifestation of a long historical process of expansionism, in which tensions between the contested mandates of expansion and accumulation has been in constant interplay with the world's indigenous peoples. This...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Stevan Harrell -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liangshan and Its Entrepreneurs -- 1 | Nuosu Traditional Culture and Social Change -- 2 | The Liangshan Economic Setting and Private Entrepreneurs -- 3 | Private Sector Development in Nine Liangshan Counties -- 4...

Introduction : Liangshan and its entrepreneurs -- Nuosu traditional culture and social change -- The Liangshan economic setting and private entrepreneurs -- Private sector development in nine Liangshan counties -- Comparative profiles of Nuosu and Han entrepreneurs -- The effect of entrepreneurs...