Asian Borderlands The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier

Name: Asian Borderlands The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier
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ISBN: 9780674021716

ISBN-10: 0674021711

ISBN-13: 9780674021716

Edition: 2006

Authors: C. Patterson Giersch

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C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Patterns of acculturation were multi-directional. Both Qing and Tai created a hybrid frontier government that was tested as Burma and Siam extended influence into the region. As Qing and Chinese migrants gained greater political and economic control in borderland communities, indigenes adopted select Chinese ways.…

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List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 7.56" wide x 9.57" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Abbreviations


Note on Transliteration


Introduction



Political And Military Transformations



A Traveler's Tale



New Frontier Militarism



Ambiguity of the Barbarian



Asian Empires



Demographic, Economic, And Cultural Transformations



A Motley Throng



A Song for Tea



"Barbarians" Still?


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index