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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crossley, Pamela Kyle.

Siu, Helen F.

Sutton, Donald S.

Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Series:

Studies on China ; 28.

Studies on China ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--China--History.

Ethnicity.

History.

China--Ethnic relations--History.

China.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 378 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Contents:

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.

ISBN:

0520230159

OCLC:

60743221