A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China

Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China

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ID19898549
AuthorsJennifer Took (corresponding author)
Year2005
Publication date2005-09-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueA Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789047415718
OpenAlexW4250557150
ISBN9789047415718
LanguageEN
Citations received13

For nearly 700 years, the Chinese state exercised control over the minority peoples in its border provinces through the hereditary native chieftaincies (tusi). Utilizing fieldwork carried out by PRC authorities in the 1950s, this book investigates a Zhuang tusi in Guangxi. It explores the history and institutions of the tusi system, and discusses the dual quality of the tusi chieftaincy as a Chinese franchise and a non-Chinese polity. It describes the social structure, village administration and land tenure system of this tusi, the customary institutions of its ruling clan, and the impact of the replacement by direct Chinese rule in the 20th century. It also sheds light on the political management of the strategically sensitive Chinese-Vietnamese border over 600 years

Administration (probate law) · Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Clan · Geography · History of China · Political science · Politics · Polity · State (computer science) · Vietnamese · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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