Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Conventions xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. One The Chinese Law The Origins of the Civilizing Project 25
7. Two Xinjiang as Exception The Transformation of the Civilizing Project 48
8. Three Frontier Mediation The Rise of the Interpreters 80
9. Four Bad Women and Lost Children The Sexual Economy of Confucian Colonialism 116
10. Five Recollecting Bones The Muslim Uprisings as Historical Trauma 149
11. Six Historical Estrangement and the end of Empire 177
12. Conclusion 207
13. Notes 223
14. Bibliography 263
15. Index 281