The Chinese Sultanate : Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873 / David G. Atwill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atwill, David G., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.) : 2 tables, 3 figures, 6 maps

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Muslim-led Panthay Rebellion was one of five mid-nineteenth-century rebellions to threaten the Chinese imperial court. The Chinese Sultanate begins by contrasting the views of Yunnan held by the imperial center with local and indigenous perspectives, in particular looking at the strong ties the Muslim Yunnanese had with Southeast Asia and Tibet. Traditional interpretations of the rebellion there have emphasized the political threat posed by the Muslim Yunnanese, but no prior study has sought to understand the insurrection in its broader muti-ethnic borderland context. At its core, the book delineates the escalating government support of premeditated massacres of the Hui by Han Chinese and offers the first in-depth examination of the seventeen-year-long rule of the Dali Sultanate.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables

Acknowledgments

1. A Mandarin's Tale

2. South of the Clouds: The World of Nineteenth-Century Yunnan

3. Shades of Islam: The Muslim Yunnanese

4. Rebellion's Roots: Hanjianism, Han Newcomers, and Non-Han Violence in Yunnan

5. Spiraling Violence: The Rise of Anti-Hui Hostilities

6. "All the Fish in the Pond": The Kunming Massacre and the Rise of the Panthay Rebellion

7. Ambiguous Ambitions: Ma Rulong's Road to Power, r86o-r864

8. Rebellious Visions: Du Wenxiu and the Creation of the Dali Sultanate

9. Ethereal Deeds: The Struggle to Reclaim Yunnan, r867-r873

10. Epilogue: The Aftermath of Rebellion

Chinese Characters

Abbreviated References

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2521-4

OCLC:

1294423317