Ou Chaoquan, Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930–1949 (original) (raw)

Life in a Kam Village is a work of auto-ethnography that concerns the Kam (Gaem) people of Guizhou and neighboring provinces, a people officially known in China as the Dong ethnic group (Dongzu 侗族). The author and the translator collaborated on an earlier work (Geary et al. 2003) which is a more general overview of Kam culture in south China and along with Rossi and Lau's 1991 photo-rich work is one of the few studies in English on the Kam/Dong people. One of Ou's goals in the present book is to present a more nuanced "warts and all" portrait of a local Kam culture than was possible in the former text.