Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes to readers ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Identity at the Heart of Empire
7. 1. Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners 27
8. 2. Making Mongols 58
9. 3. “A Fierce and Brutal People”: On Islam and Muslims in Qing Law 83
10. Part II. Narrative Wars at the New Frontiers
11. 4. The Qing and Islam on the Western Frontier 113
12. 5. The Cant of Conquest: Tusi Offices and China’s Political Incorporation of the Southwest Frontier 135
13. Part III. Old Contests of the South and Southwest
14. 6. The Yao Wars in the Mid-Ming and their Impact on Yao Ethnicity 171
15. 7. Ethnicity and the Miao Frontier in the Eighteenth Century 190
16. 8. Ethnicity, Conflict, and the State in the Early to Mid-Qing: The Hainan Highlands, 1644–1800 229
17. Part IV. Uncharted Boundaries
18. 9. Ethnic Labels in a Mountainous Region: The Case of She “Bandits” 255
19. 10. Lineage, Market, Pirate, and Dan: Ethnicity in the Pearl River Delta of South China 285
20. Conclusion 311
21. Contributors 321
22. Bibliography 325
23. Glossary of characters 347
24. Index 367