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Empire and Identity in Guizhou
Local Resistance to Qing Expansion
This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities' attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state's quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices—chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry—that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power.
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"Weinstein painstakingly pieces together images of Guizhou's changing landscapes and, in particular, those of an ethnic people that were somewhat absent from previous scholarly discussions. Building on solid historical studieswhich emphasize indigenous response to China's colonization of the region, Weinstein's book also carries analytical and methodological significance. Most importantly, the in-between position of the Zhongjia and their semi-state spaces open up a productive venue to engage the interactive dynamics of structure and agency, as well as of state and society. Rather than treating 'Sinicization' as teleology, Weinstein suggests that 'advancement towards civilization' was by no means a fait accompli."—Yu Luo, Asian Highlands Perspectives
"[A] brief but well-researched and contextualized study. . . [A]n important study of the late imperial encounter between the Zhongjia people of Guizhou Province in southwestern China and immigrants identified as Han, or "Chinese," bearing the dominant Confucian culture."—Hugh R. Clark, Historian, The
"Weinstein adds to the rich body of English-language monographs on the relationship between China's late imperial empires and non-Han peoples living on the borderlands of China proper. . . . An important contribution to the new Qing history with this solidly researched study of the Zhongjia and their resistance to Qing rule."—Cynthia Brokaw, Canadian Journal of History
Hardback | |
December 1, 2013 | |
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208 | |
3 maps | |
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