Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) - Softcover

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Weinstein, Jodi L.

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9780295993270: Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)
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ISBN 10: 0295993278 ISBN 13: 9780295993270
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2013

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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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Jodi L. Weinstein teaches history at The College of New Jersey.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0295993278
ISBN 13 
9780295993270
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Paperback
Number of pages
208
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