The Chinese State at the Borders

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 Early Seventeenth Century / Nicola Di Cosmo 4 What Happens When Wang Yangming Crosses the Border / Timothy Brook 5 Wang Yangming and the Problem of Non-Chinese / Leo Shin 6 Embracing Victory, Effacing Defeat: Rewriting the Qing Frontier Campaigns / Peter Purdue 7 The Qing-Choson Frontier on Mount Paektu / Andre Schmid 8 The Amur, as River, as Border / Victor Zatsepine 9 The Ethics of Benevolence in French Colonial Vietnam: A Sino-Franco-Vietnamese Cultural Borderland / Van Nguyen-Marshall 10 A zone of nebulous menace: the Guangxi/Indochina border in the Republican period / Diana Lary 11 Border Banishment: Political Exile in the Army Farms of Beidahuang / Wang Ning 12 L'etat, c'est nous? or We have met the oppressor and he is us? The predicament of minority cadres in the PRC / Stevan Harrell 13 Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Periphery in Contemporary China / Pitman Potter Bibliography Index

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