UID:
almafu_9959230529002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (391 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-35656-9
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0-520-92753-2
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9786612356568
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1-59875-924-8
Serie:
Studies on China ; 28
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Part I. Identity at the heart of empire --
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Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners /
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Making Mongols /
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"A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law /
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Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers --
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The Qing and Islam on the western frontier /
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The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier /
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Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest --
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The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity /
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Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century /
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Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 /
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Part IV. Uncharted boundaries --
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Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" /
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Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China /
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-520-23015-9
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
DOI:
10.1525/9780520927537
