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Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China

Pamela Kyle Crossley

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Focusing on the Ming and the Qing eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.

Language: English

Pages: 388

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: January 19, 2006

ISBN: 0520230159

ISBN 13: 9780520230156

Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China

Pamela Kyle Crossley

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Focusing on the Ming and the Qing eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.

Language: English

Pages: 388

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: January 19, 2006

ISBN: 0520230159

ISBN 13: 9780520230156

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