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Informationen zum Autor Diana Lary is a professor of history and director of the Centre of Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Among her many publications, she is co-editor with Stephen MacKinnon of Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China. Klappentext Diana Lary is a professor of history and director of the Centre of Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Among her many publications, she is co-editor with Stephen MacKinnon of Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time! questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1 The Borderlands in Chinese Political Theory, Past and Present /Alexander Woodside 2 Ming-Qing Border Defense, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography,and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century /Benjamin Elman 3 Marital Politics on the Manchu-Mongol Frontier in the EarlySeventeenth Century / Nicola Di Cosmo 4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border / TimothyBrook 5 Wang Yangming and the Problem of "Non-Chinese" / LeoShin 6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing FrontierCampaigns / Peter Purdue 7 The Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu / AndreSchmid 8 The Amur, as River, as Border / Victor Zatsepine 9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: ASino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland / VanNguyen-Marshall 10 A zone of nebulous menace: the Guangxi/Indochina border in theRepublican period / Diana Lary 11 Border Banishment: Political Exile in the Army Farms ofBeidahuang / Wang Ning 12 L'état, c'est nous? or We have met the oppressor and heis us? The predicament of minority cadres in the PRC / StevanHarrell 13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery inContemporary China / Pitman Potter Bibliography Index ...
