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Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China /
Focusing on the Ming and Qing eras, this book analyses crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional and religious identities. It demonstrates how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Collection: | Studies on China ;
28. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.