| Description |
1 online resource (x, 378 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies on China ; 28
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Studies on China ; 28.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Focusing on the Ming and Qing eras, this book analyses crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional and religious identities. It demonstrates how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnicity -- China -- History.
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Ethnicity. |
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China. |
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History. |
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China -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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Ethnic relations. |
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China -- Ethnic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Crossley, Pamela Kyle, editor.
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Siu, Helen F., editor.
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Sutton, Donald S., editor.
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| Added Title |
Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Empire at the margins. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520230159 (DLC) 2005018339 (OCoLC)60743221 |
| ISBN |
9780520927537 (electronic book) |
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0520927532 (electronic book) |
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1423745426 (electronic book) |
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9781423745426 (electronic book) |
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1598759248 |
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9781598759242 |
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9780520230156 (alkaline paper) |
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0520230159 (alkaline paper) |
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1282356569 |
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9781282356566 |
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