Constructing Suiyuan : the politics of northwestern territory and development in early twentieth-century China / by Justin Tighe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tighe, Justin.

Series:

Brill's Inner Asian library 1566-7162 ; v. 15.

Brill's Inner Asian library, 1566-7162 ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suiyuan Sheng (China)--Politics and government.

Suiyuan Sheng (China).

Suiyuan Sheng (China)--History.

China--History--20th century.

China.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Summary:

This groundbreaking study sheds light on the mechanisms of Chinese nation and state making. Closely examining the remaking of Qing Inner Asia as Chinese provincial territory in the late Qing and Republican periods, the author focuses on the efforts of warlords and local Chinese elites in creating the new Inner Mongolian province of Suiyuan. Based on a wide reading of rarely-accessed sources, the book explores land reclamation, the growth of counties and other ways by which Suiyuan gained provincial substance. It also carefully traces the emergence of a new national discourse on Northwestern territory and demonstrates its importance in placing Suiyuan within the Chinese Republic. More broadly speaking, Constructing Suiyuan deals with the comparative perspectives in issues of space, territoriality and the modern (Chinese) state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-290) and index.

ISBN:

9004144668

OCLC:

58043294