The Tower of Five Glories: A Study of the Min Chia (Bai Ethnic Minority) of Ta Li, Yunnan

A contribution to the study of a tribal people, Min Chia, or the bai ethnic minority, as it is officially called nowadays. By living among this people in the late 1930s in DaLi, Yunnan Province, China, Professor C. P. Fitzgerald examines the culture of Min Chia, \ their living environment, rice-based economy, language, three religions, family and kinship, travel, foreign contacts and missionaries. This book is greatly enhanced by historical photos from the 1930s taken by Fitzgerald. the book also includes a grammar and vocabulary of the Min Chia language. Reprint edition.