Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China: 28 (Studies on China) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0520230159 ISBN 13: 9780520230156

Verlag: University of California Press, 2006

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"Will likely become a standard work concerning the frontiers of China and the peoples who lived there in the early modern period."

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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.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0520230159
• ISBN 13: 9780520230156
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388
• Herausgeber: Crossley Pamela Kyle, Siu Helen F., Sutton Donald S.