Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority: the Bai people of southwest China

Based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China, this book explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background.

It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of 'alterity', which suggests a world beyond here and now.