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Title The Chinese state at the borders / edited by Diana Lary
Published Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : maps
Series Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523
Contemporary Chinese studies. 1206-9523
Contents The centre and the Borderlands in Chinese political theory / Alexander Woodside -- Ming-Qing broder defence, the inwards turn of Chinese cartography, and Qing expanision in Central Asia in the eighteenth century / Benjamin A. Elman -- Marital politics on the Manchu-Mongol frontier in the early seventeenth century / Nicola Di Cosmo -- What happens when Wang Yangming crosses the border? / Timothy Brook -- Ming China and its border with Annam / Leo K. Sin -- Embracing victory, effacing defeat : rewriting the Qing frontier campaigns / Peter C. Perdue -- Tributary relations and the Qing-Chosŏn frontier on Mount Paektu / Andre Schmid -- The Amur : as river, as border / Victor Zatsepine -- The ethics of benevolence in French colonial Vietnam : a Sino-Franco-Vietnamese cultural borderland / Van Nguyen-Marshall -- A zone of nebulous menace : the Guangxi/Indochina border in the republican period / Diana Lary -- Border banishment : rightists in the army farms of Beidahuang / Wang Ning -- L'état, c'est nous, or we have met the oppressor and he is us : the predicament of minority cadres in the PRC / Stevan Harrell -- Theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the periphery in contemporary China / Pitman B. Potter
Summary The People's Republic of China claims 22,000 kilometres of land borders and 18,000 kilometres of coast line. How did this vast country come into being? The state credo describes an ancient process of cultural expansion, where border peoples gratefully acc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index
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Subject Minorities -- Government policy -- China -- History
Regionalism -- China -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Boundaries
Ethnic relations
Minorities -- Government policy
Regionalism
Territorial expansion
Territorialpolitik
Kulturimperialismus
Grenzkonflikt
Territorium
Expansion
Territorialpolitik.
Kulturimperialismus.
Territorium.
Expansion.
Grenzkonflikt.
Gränser -- historia -- Kina.
Regionalism -- historia -- Kina.
Expansion.
Grenzkonflikt.
Kulturimperialismus.
Territorialpolitik.
Territorium.
SUBJECT China -- Territorial expansion -- History
China -- Boundaries -- History
China -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject China
China
China.
Kina -- historia.
China.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lary, Diana.
ISBN 0774813334
9780774813334
9780774813341
0774813342
9780774855747
0774855746
1282741373
9781282741379
9786612741371
6612741376