Xiaofei Kang and Donald Sutton examine a garrison city and a pilgrimage center in the Sino-Tibetan borderland, tracing the dynamic role of religion and ethnicity in state/society relations from the Ming founding through Communist revolution to the age of tourism.

KANG XIAOFEI is Associate Professor of religion at the George Washington University DONALD S. SUTTON is Professor Emeritus of history and anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University