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Asian Borderlands
With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
Corporate Conquests
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses througho...
Corporate Conquests
The Muleteers -- Families -- The revolutionaries -- The excluded -- Mining -- The technocrat -- Corporations, the state, and ethnic difference.
Chinese Circulations
This collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.
Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700‐1850
Nanny Kim analyses two transports systems into the Southwest of Qing China, focussing on shipping on the Upper Changjiang and road transport into central Yunnan, examining concrete technologies, economics, and the transporters in local societies and environments.
Frontier Tibet
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating within the People's Republic of China a space that retains some characteristics of a historical frontier. The region of eastern Tibet called Kham, the focus of this volume, is a productive lens through which processes of place-making and frontier dynamics can be analysed. Using historical records and ethnography, the authors challenge purely externalist approaches to convey a sense of Kham's own centrality and the agency of the actors involved. They contribute to a history from below that is relevant to the history of China and Tibet, and of comparative value for borderland studies.
Critical Han Studies
Critical Han studies : introduction and prolegomenon / Thomas S. Mullaney -- Han and China. Recentering China : the Cantonese in and beyond the Han / Kevin Carrico ; On not looking Chinese : does "mixed race" decenter the Han from Chineseness? / Emma J. Teng ; "Climate's moral economy" : geography, race, and the Han in early Republican China / Zhihong Chen ; Good Han, bad Han : the moral parameters of ethnopolitics in China / Uradyn E. Bulag -- The problem of Han origins. Understanding the snowball theory of the Han nationality / Xu Jieshun ; Antiquarian as ethnographer : Han ethnicity in early China studies / Tamara T. Chin ; The Han joker in the pack : some issues of culture and identity from the Minzu literature / Nicholas Tapp -- The problem of Han formations. Hushuo : the northern other and the naming of the Han Chinese / Mark Elliot ; From subjects to Han : the rise of Han as Identity in nineteenth-century southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch ; Searching for Han : early twentieth-century narratives of Chinese origins and development / James Leibold ; Han at Minzu's edges : what critical Han studies can learn from China's "Little Tibet" / Chris Vasantkumar.
China Marches West
From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar Mongols, and brought all of modern Xinjiang and Mongolia under their control, while gaining dominant influence in Tibet. The China we know is a product of these vast conquests. Peter C. Perdue chronicles this little-known story of China's expansion into the northwestern frontier. Unlike previous Chinese dynasties, the Qing achieved lasting domination over the eastern half of the Eurasian continent. Rulers used forcible repression when faced with re...
Contagious Capitalism
One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover, it analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization on Chinese labor politics. Market reforms and increased integration with the global economy have brought about unprecedented economic growth and social change in China during the last quarter of a century. Contagious Capitalism contends that FDI liberalization played several roles in the process of China's reforms. First, it placed compe...
Central Asia
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-eighteenth century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule. Predominantly Muslim with both nomadic and settled populations, the peoples of Central Asia came under Russian and Chinese rule after the 17...
