Empire at the Margins : Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies on China
ISBN-10
0520230159
ISBN-13
9780520230156
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 2006
Print length
388 Pages
Weight
690 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.80 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
History
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Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.
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