Reading Threads: Clothing, Ethnicity, and Place in Southwest China
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One day in 1991, I took a dusty, bumpy jeep ride between two multi-ethnic townships in the hilly border country between Sichuan and Yunnan. With me in the jeep was an official of the Nationalities Commission, the Chinese government agency of the in charge of minority affairs. Since we had just been visiting an area where four different ethnic groups lived together, he struck up a conversation about my own experience:
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