TY - BOOK AU - Erik Mueggler AU - Erik Mueggler TI - The age of wild ghosts: : memory, violence, and place in Southwest China SN - 9780520226319 U1 - 305.80095 MUE PY - 2001/// CY - Berkeley PB - : University of California Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Social conditions KW - Ethnology N1 - Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; A Note on Orthography and Transcription; 1. Introduction; 2. An Intimate Immensity; 3. An Empty Frame; 4. The Valley House; 5. Digested Words; 6. A Spectral State; 7. A Geography of Pain; 8. The Age of Wild Ghosts; 9. A Shattered Gourd; Notes; References; Index N2 - Contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine of the 1950s to the 1990s is traced in this text. This era saw great changes in the way that communities were run, including the reintroduction of the headman-ship system ER -