{"product_id":"the-chinese-state-at-the-borders-contemporary-chinese-studies-9780774813341","title":"The Chinese State at the Borders Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory, Past and Present \/ \u003cem\u003eAlexander Woodside\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Ming-Qing Border Defense, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century \/ \u003cem\u003eBenjamin Elman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the Early Seventeenth Century \/ \u003cem\u003eNicola Di Cosmo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border \/ \u003cem\u003eTimothy Brook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Wang Yangming and the Problem of \"Non-Chinese\" \/ \u003cem\u003eLeo Shin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns \/ \u003cem\u003ePeter Purdue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu \/ \u003cem\u003eAndre Schmid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The Amur, as River, as Border \/ \u003cem\u003eVictor Zatsepine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland \/ \u003cem\u003eVan Nguyen-Marshall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 A zone of nebulous menace: the Guangxi\/Indochina border in the Republican period \/ \u003cem\u003eDiana Lary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Border Banishment: Political Exile in the Army Farms of Beidahuang \/ \u003cem\u003eWang Ning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 L'état, c'est nous? or We have met the oppressor and he is us? The predicament of minority cadres in the PRC \/ \u003cem\u003eStevan Harrell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China \/ \u003cem\u003ePitman Potter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404915188055,"sku":"9780774813341","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774813341.jpg?v=1730488037","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-chinese-state-at-the-borders-contemporary-chinese-studies-9780774813341","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}