Abstract
Recent ethnographic fieldwork in a pastoral region of Inner Mongolia indicates that alcohol use and abuse plays a more significant role in contemporary Chinese social process than has previously been disclosed in either domestic or foreign scholarship. By reporting and reflecting upon the practices, purposes, and consequences of habitual indulgence by male Mongolian herders in a particular setting, this article breaks down the monolithic conceptual category of “Chinese drinking” and reconfirms that alcohol-related problems are deeply embedded within broad social issues associated with modernization.
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