Asian borderlands : the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier Giersch, Charles Patterson(著/文) - Harvard University Press
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Asian borderlands : the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier
- 初版年月日
- 2006年1月
- 登録日
- 2016年5月18日
- 最終更新日
- 2016年5月18日
紹介
C. Patterson Giersch provides a ground-breaking challenge to the China-centred narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Patterns of acculturation were multi-directional. Both Qing and Tai created a hybrid frontier government that was tested as Burma and Siam extended influence into the region. As Qing and Chinese migrants gained greater political and economic control in borderland communities, indigenes adopted select Chinese ways. Chinese language was useful for trade, and relations with imperial officials were eased by wearing the queue and donning imperial robes. But, indigenous culture and livelihoods persisted, and Tai aristocrats adopted rituals and symbols of the Burmese and Siamese courts. Qing conquest and Chinese migration did not lead to simple patterns of incorporation and assimilation. Chinese economic and cultural influences were profound, but did not entirely undermine indigenous practices.
These legacies, which would shape and complicate 20th Century Chinese state building, hold an important key to understanding modern China.
目次
Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Introduction PART I: POLITICAL AND MILITARY TRANSFORMATIONS 1. A Traveler's Tale 2. New Frontier Militarism 3. Ambiguity of the Barbarian 4. Asian Empires PART II: DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS 5. A Motley Throng 6. A Song for Tea 7. "Barbarians" Still? Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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