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Title Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 378 pages)
Series Studies on China ; 28
Studies on China ; 28.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnicity -- China -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Ethnicity -- China -- History.
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Ethnische Identität
Grenzgebiet
SUBJECT China -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject China -- Ethnic relations -- History.
China
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Crossley, Pamela Kyle, editor.
Siu, Helen F., editor.
Sutton, Donald S., editor.
ISBN 9780520927537
0520927532
1423745426
9781423745426
1598759248
9781598759242
9780520230156
0520230159
1282356569
9781282356566
9786612356568
6612356561
Other Titles Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China