Contesting the Yellow Dragon : Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009 (Religion in Chinese Societies)

Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine a garrison city and a pilgrimage center in the Sino-Tibetan borderland, tracing the dynamic role of religion and ethnicity in state/society relations from the Ming founding through Communist revolution to the age of tourism.