Empire and Identity in Guizhou Local Resistance to Qing Expansion
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804811 This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities' attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Fa...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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University of Washington Press
2013
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| Series: | Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
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| Summary: | Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804811 This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities' attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state's quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices-chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry-that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (208 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780295804811 9780295993263 |
| Access: | Open Access |