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

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.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Crossley, Pamela Kyle.
  • Siu, Helen F.
  • Sutton, Donald S.
Description
1 online resource (x, 378 p.) : maps.
Series Statement
Studies on China ; 28
Uniform Title
Empire at the margins (Online)
Alternative Title
Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China
Subject
  • Ethnicity > China > History
  • China > Ethnic relations > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2005018339
OCLC
ssj0000146174
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.
Series
Studies on China ; 28
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Crossley, Pamela Kyle.
Siu, Helen F.
Sutton, Donald S.
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