Making of the Chinese State Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands

Name: Making of the Chinese State Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands
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ISBN: 9780521853545

ISBN-10: 0521853540

ISBN-13: 9780521853545

Edition: 2006

Authors: Leo K. Shin

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Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configurations to the Ming dynasty and challenges the traditional view that China's expansion was primarily an exercise of incorporation and assimiliation.

Book details

List price: $116.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/3/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of tables


Preface


Dynastic and reign periods


Conventions


List of abbreviations



History of the margins


"March toward the tropics"


Boundaries of imagination



Nature of the borderland


Moral geography


Reach of the state


Demographic patterns


Life in the borderland


Boundaries of nature



Politics of chieftaincy


The chieftain system


Fragile alliance


Limits of the state


In search of buffer


Boundaries of power



Mapping of settlement


The min minority


Economics of violence


The "Yao" of the Rattan Gorge


The "Zhuang" of Gutian


Mapping min and man


Boundaries of order



Culture of demarcation


Demarcating hua and yi


Customs of their own


Discourse on distinction


Local knowledge


Boundaries of culture



Margins in history


Multiple constituencies


Imagining the nation


Making of minorities


Boundaries of history


Works cited


Glossary-Index