Empire at the margins : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / / edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald S. Sutton.

• Superior document: Studies on China ; 28
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Crossley, Pamela Kyle.; Siu, Helen F.; Sutton, Donald S.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on China ; 28.
• Physical Description: x, 378 p. :; maps.
• Other title: Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China; Part I. Identity at the heart of empire --; Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners /; Making Mongols /; "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law /; Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers --; The Qing and Islam on the western frontier /; The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier /; Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest --; The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity /; Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century /; Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 /; Part IV. Uncharted boundaries --; Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" /; Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index.
• ISBN: 0520230159 (alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald S. Sutton.