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China's Borderlands under the Qing, 1644–1912: Perspectives and Approaches in the Investigation of Imperial Boundary Regions book cover

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China's Borderlands under the Qing, 1644–1912 Perspectives and Approaches in the Investigation of Imperial Boundary Regions

By Daniel McMahon Copyright 2021
232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 discourse in... Read more

Introduction

PART I Historiographical perspectives

1. Perspectives in North American Research on Qing China’s frontiers

PART II Conceptual perspectives

2. Were the Miao Kings "Prophets of Renewal"? The case of the 1795–1797 Hunan Miao revolt

3. The middle ground, "middle ground moments," and accommodation in the study of later Qing borderland history

PART III New military history

4. Geomancy and walled fortifications on a late eighteenth-century Qing borderland

5. Fortified walls and social ordering in Qing China’s early Jiaqing borderland revolts

PART IV Political discourse analysis

6. Treachery at imperial edges: criminality and bureaucratic classification as jian in middle Qing China

7. Marking "men of iniquity": imperial purpose and imagined boundaries in the Qing processing of rebel ringleaders, 1786–1828

Appendix 1. Translation: Yan Ruyi’s "Conditions and customs in the mountains"

Biography

Daniel McMahon is a professor in the Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

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