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Title Empire at the margins [electronic resource] : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald S. Sutton.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

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Description x, 378 p. : maps.
Series Studies on China ; 28
Studies on China ; 28.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Ethnicity -- China -- History.
China -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Crossley, Pamela Kyle.
Siu, Helen F.
Sutton, Donald S.
ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
ISBN 0520230159 (alk. paper)

 
    
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