TY - BOOK ID - 77865246 TI - Empire at the margins AU - Crossley, Pamela Kyle AU - Siu, Helen F AU - Sutton, Donald S PY - 2006 SN - 1282356569 0520927532 9786612356568 1598759248 9780520927537 1423745426 9781423745426 9781598759242 9780520230156 0520230159 9781282356566 6612356561 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - History. KW - China KW - Ethnic relations KW - S11/1210 KW - History KW - China: Social sciences--Works on the national minorities and special groups in China: general and before 1949 (Tibetans, Mongols etc. see Tibet, Mongolia ... but social relations between Chinese and these minorities come here) KW - asia. KW - avars. KW - bandits. KW - chinese culture. KW - chinese history. KW - colonialism. KW - conquest. KW - dan. KW - empire. KW - ethnicity. KW - foreign policy. KW - frontier. KW - gender. KW - guizhou. KW - hainan highlands. KW - han. KW - history. KW - imperialism. KW - independence. KW - islam. KW - kingdoms. KW - kitans. KW - manchu. KW - miao. KW - ming dynasty. KW - ming empire. KW - mongols. KW - mountains. KW - muslim. KW - nationalism. KW - nonfiction. KW - pearl river. KW - pirates. KW - provinces. KW - qiang. KW - qing empire. KW - qing law. KW - race. KW - rebellion. KW - religion. KW - resistance. KW - smuggling. KW - social order. KW - tusi. KW - uyghurs. KW - war. KW - women in history. KW - yao wars. KW - yao. KW - yunnan. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865246 AB - 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. ER -