Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
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Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
(Studies on China, 28)
University of California Press, c2006
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Available at 16 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: cloth222.06||C9300953037
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Notes to Readers Introduction I. Identity at the Heart of Empire 1. Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners Mark C. Elliott 2. Making Mongols Pamela Kyle Crossley 3. "A Fierce and Brutal People": On Islam and Muslims in Qing Law Jonathan N. Lipman II. Narrative Wars at the New Frontiers 4. The Qing and Islam on the Western Frontier James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby 5. The Cant of Conquest: Tusi Offices and China's Political Incorporation of the Southwest Frontier John E. Herman III. Old Contests of the South and Southwest 6. The Yao Wars in the Mid-Ming and their Impact on Yao Ethnicity David Faure 7. Ethnicity and the Miao Frontier in the Eighteenth Century Donald S. Sutton 8. Ethnicity, Conflict, and the State in the Early to Mid-Qing: The Hainan Highlands, 1644--1800 Anne Csete IV. Uncharted Boundaries 9. Ethnic Labels in a Mountainous Region: The Case of She "Bandits" Wing-hoi Chan 10. Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan: Ethnicity in the Pearl River Delta of South China Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei Conclusion Notes on Contributors Bibliography Glossary of Characters Index
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