TY - BOOK ID - 134633755 TI - A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China : Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China PY - 2005 SN - 9789047415718 9789004147973 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Ethnic relations KW - Local government KW - Minorities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134633755 AB - For nearly 700 years, the Chinese state exercised control over the minority peoples in its border provinces through the hereditary native chieftaincies (tusi). Utilizing fieldwork carried out by PRC authorities in the 1950s, this book investigates a Zhuang tusi in Guangxi. It explores the history and institutions of the tusi system, and discusses the dual quality of the tusi chieftaincy as a Chinese franchise and a non-Chinese polity. It describes the social structure, village administration and land tenure system of this tusi, the customary institutions of its ruling clan, and the impact of the replacement by direct Chinese rule in the 20th century. It also sheds light on the political management of the strategically sensitive Chinese-Vietnamese border over 600 years. ER -