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The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China From the Dali Kingdom to Imperial Province

200 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

200 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

200 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation as a province by the Yuan regime in 1276 did not disrupt Dali kingdom style political, social and religious institutions. It was the Ming state in the fourteenth to seventeenth... Read more

Introduction 1 Salt, Grain and the Change of Deities in Early Ming Western Yunnan ZHAO Min 2 Local Communities, Village Temples and the Reconstruction of Ethnic Groups in Western Yunnan, 14^th to 17^th Centuries Jianxiong Ma 3 The Lancang Guard and the Construction of Ming Society in Northwest Yunnan HUANG Caiwen 4 The Mu Native Official’s Governance of the Tibetan World and His Sponsorship of Tibetan Buddhism YAMADA Noriyuki 5 Upland Leaders of the Internal Frontier and Ming Governance of Western Yunnan, 15^th and 16^th Centuries Christian Daniels