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.

Series:

Studies on China ; 28.

Studies on China ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--China--History.

Ethnicity.

China--Ethnic relations--History.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612356568

9781282356566

1282356569

9780520927537

0520927532

9781598759242

1598759248

OCLC:

475969654