Empire and identity in Guizhou : local resistance to Qing expansion /
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Author / Creator: | Weinstein, Jodi L. |
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Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013] ©2014 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : maps |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies on ethnic groups in China Studies on ethnic groups in China. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208201 |
Summary: | Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804811 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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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780295804811 0295804815 9780295993263 029599326X 9780295993270 0295993278 |