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The making of the Chinese state : = ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The making of the Chinese state :/ Leo K. Shin.
Reminder of title:	ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands /
Author:	Shin, Leo Kwok-yueh,
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 246 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Minorities - Government policy - China -
Subject:	Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China) - Ethnic relations -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523953
ISBN:	9780511523953 (ebook)

The making of the Chinese state : = ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands /
Shin, Leo Kwok-yueh,1967-

The making of the Chinese state :ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands /Leo K. Shin. - 1 online resource (xxi, 246 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

History of the margins -- Nature of the borderland -- Politics of chieftaincy -- Mapping of settlement -- Culture of demarcation -- Margins in history.

In this well-crafted 2006 study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configurations to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Challenging the traditional view that China's expansion was primarily an exercise of incorporation and assimilation, Shin argues that as the centre extended its reach to the wild and inaccessible south, the political interests of the state, the economic needs of the settlers, and the imaginations of the cultural elites all facilitated the demarcation and categorisation of these borderland 'non-Chinese' populations. The story told here, however, extends beyond the imperial period. Just as Ming emperors considered it essential to reinforce a sense of universal order by demarcating the 'non-Chinese', modern-day Chinese rulers also find it critical to maintain the myth of a unified multi-national state by officially recognising a total of fifty-six 'nationalities'.

ISBN: 9780511523953 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802858
Minorities
--Government policy--ChinaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

802857
Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China)
--Ethnic relations

LC Class. No.: DS793.K6 / S54 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 323.151/2809

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