This book explores new directions in the study of China’s borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author’s own research. These studies probe regional accommodations, the intersections of borderland management, martial fortification, and imperial culture, as well as the role of governmental d...(展开全部)

This book explores new directions in the study of China’s borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author’s own research. These studies probe regional accommodations, the intersections of borderland management, martial fortification, and imperial culture, as well as the role of governmental d...(展开全部)

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. Pat...(展开全部)

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. Pat...(展开全部)

Relations between the Qing empire and its Tibetan borderlands in western Sichuan underwent major changes during the decades between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In eastern Tibet or Kham, a region straddling western Sichuan and central Tibet that traditionally had been under the rule of hereditary chieftains, the Qing state mounted a vigorous campaign of conquest ...(展开全部)

Relations between the Qing empire and its Tibetan borderlands in western Sichuan underwent major changes during the decades between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In eastern Tibet or Kham, a region straddling western Sichuan and central Tibet that traditionally had been under the rule of hereditary chieftains, the Qing state mounted a vigorous campaign of conquest ...(展开全部)

In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in M...(展开全部)

In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in M...(展开全部)