Empire at the margins [electronic resource] : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald S. Sutton.
Contributor(s): Crossley, Pamela Kyle | Siu, Helen F | Sutton, Donald S | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Studies on China: 28.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006Description: x, 378 p. : maps ; 24 cm.Other title: Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China.Subject(s): Ethnicity -- China -- History | China -- Ethnic relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.8/00951/0903 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index.
Part I. Identity at the heart of empire -- Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott -- Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers -- The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby -- The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman -- Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest -- The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure -- Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton -- Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete -- Part IV. Uncharted boundaries -- Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan -- Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei.
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