caa a22 4500 388103981 CHVBK 20180307125331.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305741000001430 doi S0305741000001430 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305741000001430 Chongyi Feng Seeking Lost Codes in the Wilderness: The Search for a Hainanese Culture [Elektronische Daten] [Feng Chongyi] Regional and provincial cultures have (re)emerged in China since the 1980s, regardless of their previous existence or articulation. Although it is not yet clear whether this represents the seemingly powerful trend of fragmentation or nothing but a superficial phenomenon generated by the unprecedented pace of economic integration throughout the country, there is every reason to believe that regional and provincial cultures, or identities, in China have been (re)shaped by the new process of modernization, decentralization and international interactions that have characterized the reform era. Competition for resources, markets and preferential policies have forced every locality to mobilize support from their local populations; reform, decentralization, marketization, internationalization, growing provincial autonomy and the decline of state ideology have combined to challenge some time-honoured traditions and provide an opportunity for the discourse of regional cultures and identities. While it is almost a common belief in China that a construction of a glorious past will inevitably lead to the self-confidence needed for a nation or community to build a better future, some see the current reforms as an opportunity to rid themselves of, or distance themselves from, the anti-commerce, anti-individual conservatism assumed to be inherent in the Chinese state ideology; others, those in the south-east coastal area in particular, find themselves natural heirs to the open and dynamic entrepreneurial culture suppressed by the centralized state in the past. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 160(1999-12), 1036-1056 0305-7410 160<1036 1999 160 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000001430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000001430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chongyi Feng NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 160(1999-12), 1036-1056 0305-7410 160<1036 1999 160 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge