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The making of the Chinese state : ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands / Leo K. Shin.

By:

Shin, Leo Kwok-yueh, 1967- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xxi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521853540
9780521853545

Other title:

Ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderland

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323.1512809 22

LOC classification:

DS793.K6 S54 2006

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

1. History of the margins -- 2. Nature of the borderland -- 3. Politics of chieftancy -- 4. Mapping of settlement -- 5. Culture of demarcation -- 6. Margins in history.

Review: "In this study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configurations to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Challenging the traditional view that China's expansion was primarily an exercise of incorporation and assimilation, Shin argues that as the center extended its reach to the wild and inaccessible south, the political interests of the state, the economic needs of the settlers, and the imaginations of the cultural elites all facilitated the demarcation and categorization of the borderland "non-Chinese" populations. The story told here, however, extends beyond the imperial period. Just as Ming emperors considered it essential to reinforce a sense of universal order by demarcating the "non-Chinese," modern-day Chinese rulers also find it critical to maintain the myth of a unitary multi-national state by officially recognizing a total of fifty-six "nationalities.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. History of the margins -- 2. Nature of the borderland -- 3. Politics of chieftancy -- 4. Mapping of settlement -- 5. Culture of demarcation -- 6. Margins in history.

"In this study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configurations to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Challenging the traditional view that China's expansion was primarily an exercise of incorporation and assimilation, Shin argues that as the center extended its reach to the wild and inaccessible south, the political interests of the state, the economic needs of the settlers, and the imaginations of the cultural elites all facilitated the demarcation and categorization of the borderland "non-Chinese" populations. The story told here, however, extends beyond the imperial period. Just as Ming emperors considered it essential to reinforce a sense of universal order by demarcating the "non-Chinese," modern-day Chinese rulers also find it critical to maintain the myth of a unitary multi-national state by officially recognizing a total of fifty-six "nationalities.""--BOOK JACKET.

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