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Empire at the Margins
Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China
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Edited by:
Pamela Kyle Crossley
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
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.
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Crossley Pamela Kyle :
Pamela Kyle Crossley is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Helen Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Donald Sutton is Professor of History and Anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Part I. Identity at the Heart of Empire
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Part II. Narrative Wars at the New Frontiers
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Part III. Old Contests of the South and Southwest
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Part IV. Uncharted Boundaries
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eBook published on:
January 19, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9780520927537
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388
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9780520927537
Keywords for this book
chinese history; ethnicity; race; muslim; islam; religion; asia; qing law; mongols; empire; frontier; colonialism; imperialism; tusi; yao wars; ming dynasty; miao; hainan highlands; pearl river; mountains; resistance; war; rebellion; independence; nonfiction; bandits; gender; women in history; pirates; smuggling; avars; kitans; manchu; qiang; uyghurs; ming empire; qing empire; han; dan; yao; guizhou; yunnan; social order; chinese culture; conquest; kingdoms; foreign policy; provinces; nationalism; history
