The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands
"I highly recommend this book as an elegant and sophisticated, yet highly readable, treatment of frontier interactions during the Ming dynasty.  The excellent maps, careful selection of illustrations, and inclusion of Chinese characters in the index and bibliography witness to the attention to detail that the author brings to the entire work."-Laura Hostetler, University of Illinois"The writing is eloquent  and the ideas manifold...It is a wonderful book to induce further though about polity and society interactions in and beyond China."-Geoff Wade,  The International History Review"This is a useful book that advances our understanding of the thorny relationship between territorial expansion and ethnic identity in modern China."-Kenneth M. Swope, Ball State University, The Historian