Daniel McMahon

China's Borderlands under the Qing, 1644-1912 (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives and Approaches in the Investigation of Imperial Boundary Regions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores new directions in the study of China's borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author's own research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000343458
• Artikelnr.: 60729588

Autorenporträt

Daniel McMahon is a professor in the Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I Historiographical perspectives
1. Perspectives in North American Research on Qing China's frontiers
PART II Conceptual perspectives
2. Were the Miao Kings "Prophets of Renewal"? The case of the 1795-1797
Hunan Miao revolt
3. The middle ground, "middle ground moments," and accommodation in the
study of later Qing borderland history
PART III New military history
4. Geomancy and walled fortifications on a late eighteenth-century Qing
borderland
5. Fortified walls and social ordering in Qing China's early Jiaqing
borderland revolts
PART IV Political discourse analysis
6. Treachery at imperial edges: criminality and bureaucratic classification
as jian in middle Qing China
7. Marking "men of iniquity": imperial purpose and imagined boundaries in
the Qing processing of rebel ringleaders, 1786-1828
Appendix 1. Translation: Yan Ruyi's "Conditions and customs in the
mountains"

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Introduction

PART I Historiographical perspectives

1. Perspectives in North American Research on Qing China's frontiers

PART II Conceptual perspectives

2. Were the Miao Kings "Prophets of Renewal"? The case of the 1795-1797 Hunan Miao revolt

3. The middle ground, "middle ground moments," and accommodation in the study of later Qing borderland history

PART III New military history

4. Geomancy and walled fortifications on a late eighteenth-century Qing borderland

5. Fortified walls and social ordering in Qing China's early Jiaqing borderland revolts

PART IV Political discourse analysis

6. Treachery at imperial edges: criminality and bureaucratic classification as jian in middle Qing China

7. Marking "men of iniquity": imperial purpose and imagined boundaries in the Qing processing of rebel ringleaders, 1786-1828

Appendix 1. Translation: Yan Ruyi's "Conditions and customs in the mountains"