Empire and Identity in Guizhou

Local Resistance to Qing Expansion

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Minority Studies, History, Asian, China
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Author: Jodi L. Weinstein ISBN: 9780295804811
Publisher: University of Washington Press Publication: October 13, 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press Language: English
Author: Jodi L. Weinstein
ISBN: 9780295804811
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication: October 13, 2013
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Language: English

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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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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