The Chinese sultanate
Subtitle: Islam, ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in southwest China, 1856-1873
By: David G. Atwill.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Yunnan Sheng (China) -- History -- 19th century; Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: Islam, ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in southwest China, 1856-1873
Description: "The Muslim-led Panthay Rebellion was one of five mid-nineteenth-century rebellions to threaten the Chinese imperial court. The Chinese Sultanate begins by contrasting the views of Yunnan held by the imperial center with local and indigenous perspectives, in particular looking at the strong ties the Muslim Yunnanese had with Southeast Asia and Tibet. Traditional interpretations of the rebellion there have emphasized the political threat posed by the Muslim Yunnanese, but no prior study has sought to understand the insurrection in its broader multi-ethnic borderland context.

The book delineates the escalating government support of premeditated massacres of the Hui by Han Chinese and offers the first in-depth examination of the seventeen-year-long rule of the Dali Sultanate."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Mandarin's Tale -- South of the Clouds: The World of 19th Century Yunnan -- Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese -- Rebellion's Roots: Hanjian-ism, Han Newcomers, and Non-Han Violence -- Spiraling Violence: The Rise of Anti-Hui Hostilities -- All the Fish in the Pond: The Kunming Massacre and the Panthay Rebellion -- Ambiguous Ambitions: Ma Rulong's Road to Power, 1860-1864 -- Rebellious Visions: Du Wenxiu and the Creation of the Dali Sultanate -- Ethereal Deeds: The Struggle to Reclaim Yunnan, 1867-1873 -- Epilogue: The Aftermath of Rebellion.