Han Chinese expansion in South China
By: by Herold J. Wiens.
Publisher: Shoe String Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: [Hamden, Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- China; Ethnology -- China
First sentence: The purpose of the present study is to examine the historical geography of China's push southward toward the tropics and the problem of South China's non-Han Chinese peoples.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Reprint of the 1954 ed. which was a revision of a work first published in 1952 under title: China's march into the tropics.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I. The South China geographical environment; title: Chapter II. The ancient tribal cultural complex of South China; title: Chapter III. The history of South Chinese tribal movements and migrations; title: Chapter IV. The Han- Chinese conquest of South China; title: Chapter V. Han-Chinese population movements and migrations; title: Chapter VI. Tribal uprisings and military colonization; title: Chapter VII. Frontier policy and tribal administration: the t'u-ssu system; title: Chapter VIII. Ethnic distributions and the frontier situation in modern China; title: Chapter IX. The future of the South China frontier lands