Empire at the margins
Subtitle: culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
By: edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald Sutton.
Contributors: Crossley, Pamela Kyle.; Siu, Helen F.; Sutton, Donald S.
Series: Studies on China ;; 28
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Ethnicity -- China -- History.; China -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Other titles: Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Identity at the heart of empire; title: Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott; title: Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley; title: "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman; title: Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers; title: The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby; title: The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman; title: Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest; title: The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure; title: Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton; title: Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete; title: Part IV. Uncharted boundaries; title: Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan; title: Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei.