Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China

Publication Data

• Title Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
• Alternative Title Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
• Contributors Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, Donald S. Sutton
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Berkeley, Calif.
• Language English

Contents

Part I. Identity at the heart of empire
Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott
Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley
"A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman
Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers
The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby
The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman
Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest
The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure
Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton
Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete
Part IV. Uncharted boundaries
Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan
Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei.

Topics

• Ethnicity :: China :: History
• China :: Ethnic relations :: History
• China

Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China. ISBN 0520230159. Published by University of California Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.