Orphans of the Empire
Lhasa’s Chinese Community from the Qing Era to the Early Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huasha Zhang (0000-0001-8609-9977, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul/Incheon, Republic of Korea, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 388-419 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700420969923 |
| OpenAlex | W3108408569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This article analyzes the transformation of Lhasa’s Chinese community from the embodiment of an expansionist power in the early eighteenth century to the orphan of a fallen regime after the Qing Empire’s demise in 1911. Throughout the imperial era, this remote Chinese enclave represented Qing authority in Tibet and remained under the metropole’s strong political and social influence. Its members intermarried with the locals and adopted many Tibetan cultural traits. During the years surrounding the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, this community played a significant role in a series of interconnected political and ethnic confrontations that gave birth to the two antagonistic national bodies of Tibet and China. The community’s history and experiences challenge not only the academic assessment that Tibet’s Chinese population had fully assimilated into Tibetan society by the twentieth century but also the widespread image of pre-1951 Lhasa as a harmonious town of peaceful ethnic coexistence
Ancient history · China · Chinese community · Demise · Economic history · Empire · Ethnic community · Ethnic group · Expansionism · Geography · Han chinese · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Demography · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |