Description
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.
Trade ReviewBy presenting new work, much of it by younger and Canadian scholars, this volume, complete with a comprehensive bibliography, offers access to a burgeoning literature on China’s borders from the Ming to the present. -- Valerie Hansen, Yale University * International History Review XXX, 3 *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1 The Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory, Past and Present / Alexander Woodside
2 Ming-Qing Border Defense, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century / Benjamin Elman
3 Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century / Nicola Di Cosmo
4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border / Timothy Brook
5 Wang Yangming and the Problem of "Non-Chinese" / Leo Shin
6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns / Peter Purdue
7 The Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu / Andre Schmid
8 The Amur, as River, as Border / Victor Zatsepine
9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland / Van Nguyen-Marshall
10 A zone of nebulous menace: the Guangxi/Indochina border in the Republican period / Diana Lary
11 Border Banishment: Political Exile in the Army Farms of Beidahuang / Wang Ning
12 L'état, c'est nous? or We have met the oppressor and he is us? The predicament of minority cadres in the PRC / Stevan Harrell
13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China / Pitman Potter
Bibliography
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