China's last imperial frontier
Subtitle: late Qing expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan borderlands
By: Xiuyu Wang
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780739168097; 9780739168103
Subjects: Borderlands; Military History; Relations; Imperialism; Territorial expansion; Power (Social sciences); Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Qing Discourse and Capability in Eastern Tibet; title: Frontier Society and Power; title: Lu Chuanlin's "Great Game" in Nyarong; title: Frontier Incident and War Making; title: State Violence and Local Resistance : the Kham War; title: "Regularization" Reconsidered : Variants of Gaitu Guiliu in Northern Kham; title: Fashioning an "Inner Region beyond the Pass"; title: Developing the West : Opening Kham Lands, Mines and Young Minds; title: Character List.