ABSTRACT

China has not appeared prominently in recent analyses of place and space. For instance the recently published collection of pieces by Low and Lawrence-Zuniga (2003) contains nothing on China. Like so much comparative work in anthropological place theory, it contrasts a general Western post-Renaissance and post-Enlightenment form of rationalised (and more recently hyperreal) space with similarly Western contestations of spatial schemata or alternatively the contrast is with the diverse schemata of small societies.