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{"title":"Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia, written by Tatiana Chudakova","authors":"J. Quijada","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47464160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization, written by Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen and Morten Axel Pedersen","authors":"Ruiyi Zhu","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41445931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Prince in the Body of a Parrot (Cuckoo)","authors":"Veronika Kapišovská","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302031","url":null,"abstract":"The eighteenth-century Tibetan narrative The Tale of Moon Cuckoo and its subsequent adaptation as a Mongolian traditional opera was performed from the nineteenth century up to the early twentieth. The story is based on the motif of a prince who is tricked into entering the body of a cuckoo; later on, he is not able to regain his human form, stolen by his evil-minded companion. The narrative, along with its Mongolian-language versions and operatic adaptation, is a vivid example of Tibet-Mongolian literary transmission. The underlying motif of the tale is also closely linked to the so-called frame narratives of Indian origin concerning King Vikramāditya; the popularity of these narratives was very widespread in Central and Inner Asia in times past. This paper describes some of the literary contacts concerning the narrative and motifs of The Tale of Moon Cuckoo in Central and Inner Asia and beyond, with a view as well to cross-genre considerations.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48099949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parameters of Ethnic Minorhood","authors":"Peng Hai","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The current crisis in China’s ethnic frontiers is animating intense discussion as to whether the present moment is a déjà vu of antecedents or an aberration of the Chinese ethno-political normative. Whereas the bulk of new scholarship focuses on the post-Mao era, few studies exist to elucidate the visuality of ethnic relations in the early PRC when state-building was still unfolding in the ethnic frontiers. This paper investigates how an ethnic hierarchy based on a majority-minority binarism was visually constructed during the formative decade of the socialist era (1949–59). Examining several films featuring Inner Mongolia and the socio-political interaction between Mongol indigenes and Han expeditionary personnel, this paper contends that constructing the visuality of Han superiority as adult guardian overlooking ethnic minors who must answer the interpellation of attaining the likeness of the Han was the centrepiece in substantiating a majority-minority binarism beyond a static ethno- demographic condition.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47211201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Epic Legacy of Shono-Baatar","authors":"John Ratcliffe","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Compared with epic heroes such as Geser and Jangar who are widely popular among the Mongolic peoples of Inner Asia, the far less well-known epic of Shono-Baatar stems from a determinable and relatively recent historical basis: the eighteenth-century Dzungar prince Louzang Shunu and his seeking sanctuary from persecution by his relatives in the Russian Empire. While legends and short songs about this figure are widely attested from Kalmykia to Xinjiang, only among the Buryats has any full-length oral epic been preserved: a single specimen taken down from storyteller Sagadar Shanarsheev in 1936. Although Shanarsheev’s epic possesses a complex political and textual history, it was almost wholly unknown beyond a few scholars until its republication in a dual-language Russian-Buryat edition in 2015. Since then, it has increasingly become an important part of the symbolism of Buryat cultural identity and has even been hailed as a world-class epic equal to the Iliad and Nibelungenlied.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48007089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Essays and Primary Documents, edited by Robert Barnett, Benno Weiner & Françoise Robin","authors":"Natalia Moskaleva","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46323429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Local Capitalisms in Siberia","authors":"N. Ryzhova","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302014","url":null,"abstract":"There is almost no doubt that it was capitalism – and not ideology or any specific country – that ‘won the Cold War’ (Hann 2017), and hence the collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up new spaces for the expansion of capital. It was proposed that capitalism in the post-Soviet context should work along western lines: Russian economists, experts and politicians in an alliance with the IMF chose the neo-liberal American type of capitalism as the primary model for Russia’s transition to the market (Lane 2007). However, since the 1990s, the transition model has undergone significant changes, and there is ample evidence that post-Soviet capitalism is very different from the original ideas and from the state of affairs in other capitalist countries (Hall & Soskice 2001; Hann 2002, to cite but a few). In fact, a single model is not capable of either producing or explaining the variety of forms that capitalism takes in the real world. There is evidence that even in the centre of the capitalist world – in the USA – there are very different, local forms of economic assemblage which have nothing to do with the simplifying logic of the totalising market (Tsing 2015). The articles in this special section aim to demonstrate the diversity of capitalist logics found in cases we have examined in Russian Inner Asia. The forms of capitalism we discuss are diverse, and there are many reasons why this is the case. Perhaps the most important is that capital comes to the Eastern peripheries from diverse sources: Russian agro-holdings, the Russian state and international mining companies. Sometimes capitalist relations also ‘grow on their own’, emerging from the practices of hunters and fishermen or travellers and tourists in the Siberian taiga. Furthermore, each of our stories reveals that some of the capital on Russia’s eastern fringes is of Chinese origin. We posit that, whatever the origin of the capital, the emergent economic organisms do not turn out to be pure ‘Chinese’ (as one might imagine reading Zhou 2016) or plainly ‘Russian’ economic structures. On the contrary, the nascent organisms growing in the Siberian cultural landscape, remaking it and mixing with it, intertwining with other capitals, objects, practices, present ‘impure’","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42097574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expanding through Precarity","authors":"S. Ivanov","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since the early 2000s, the border regions of the Russian Far East have seen rapid growth in large-scale Chinese agriculture through contract-farming arrangements. This article, drawing on archival and ethnographic findings, focuses on contract relations between Chinese agribusinesses and small farmers as a labour regime, unusual in the Russian context. It argues that practices of informal subcontracting, mediation and border governance underlie this regime and produce precarity for small farmers, shifting to them the natural and human risks of agricultural production in Russia. The article points out that managers of large companies used the border to discipline and dispossess direct producers.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42378657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Monastery on the Move: Art and politics in later Buddhist Mongolia, written by Uranchimeg Tsultemin","authors":"Sam H. Bass","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42857549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Picture Comes in","authors":"G. Delaplace, P. Chuluunbat","doi":"10.1163/22105018-02302019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02302019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article sketches out the conditions in which winning (türüüleh) may be achieved in Mongolian wrestling tournaments. Fieldwork carried out before, during and after the yearly competition of Naadam in the summer of 2019 suggests that these conditions are indeed rather diverse in nature. Getting ready for a contest requires wrestlers to be tending to several aspects of their personhood, as their strength, power (byar) or the success of their techniques (meh) depend not only on their physical preparedness, but also on a delicate balancing of social, technical and cosmological skills. Winning in Mongolian wrestling seldom relies on an individual performance only: following contenders in district, regional and national Naadam tournaments as they prepare for, take part in and reflect on these, we want to show that coming out on top requires a plan, or a ‘picture’ (zurag), which might or might not prevail, i.e. ‘come in’ (oroh), over that of other wrestlers. This plan involves enlisting the support of competing wrestlers, and therefore mobilising such resources as kinship, autochthony or money in order to convince them to do so. It is indeed a delicate balance between physical strength, cosmological caution and political strategy that a wrestler must strike for his plan to prevail in a competition, and it is perhaps no wonder if their person and their success should be given such a political importance in Mongolia today.","PeriodicalId":43430,"journal":{"name":"Inner Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45444949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}