Migration and ethnicity in Chinese history
Subtitle: Hakkas, Pengmin, and their neighbors
By: Sow-Theng Leong ; edited by Tim Wright, with an introduction and maps by G. William Skinner.
Contributors: Wright, Tim, 1948-; Skinner, G. William 1925-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Hakka (Chinese people) -- Ethnic identity -- History; Migration, Internal -- China -- History; China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644 -- Regional disparities; China -- Economic conditions -- 1644-1912 -- Regional disparities
Description: This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of economic opportunities. It poses three central questions: What determined the temporal and geographic pattern of Hakka and Pengmin (a largely Hakka-speaking people) migration in this era? In what circumstances and over what issues did ethnic conflict emerge? How did the Chinese state react to the phenomena of migration and ethnic conflict?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.