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Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response.

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Introduction: Making Minorities in China; S.Cheung, J.Tse-Hei Lee & L.V.Nedilsky Reaching out for the Ladder of Success: ´Outsiders´ and the Civil Examination in Late Imperial China; W. Puk Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China; R.J.Antony Politics of Faith: Christian Activism and the Maoist State in South China; J.Tse-Hei Lee The Transnational Redress Campaign for Chinese Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence in Shanxi Province; Y.Terazawa The Chinese Underclass and Organized Crime as a Stepladder of Social Ascent; M.Xia Feminisation, Recognition and the Cosmological in Xishuangbanna; A.Komlosy Re-Presenting Women´s Identities: Recognition and Representation of Rural Chinese Women; S.R.Wesoky ´This Is My Mother´s Land!´ An Indigenous Woman Speaks Out; S.Cheung Making Rights Claims Visible: Intersectionality, NGO Activism, and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong; L.Fischler Institutionalizing the Representation of Religious Minorities in post-1997 Hong Kong; L.V.Nedilsky The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou; K.Law & K.Lee

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Joseph Tse-Hei is a professor of History at Pace University.

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