Empire and Identity in Guizhou : local resistance to Qing expansion / Jodi L. Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Jodi L., author.

Series:

Studies on ethnic groups in China.

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bouyei (Chinese people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2014.

Summary:

This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities' attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state's quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices'chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry'that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index.