To Go Where No Han Could Go for Long
Malaria and the Qing Construction of Ethnic Administrative Space in Frontier Yunnan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Bello (0000-0003-4537-9483, Washington and Lee University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 283-317 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0097700404274039 |
| OpenAlex | W2072818749 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 22 |
Malaria was one of the most important factors for the maintenance of the native chieftainship system and its attendant tribal identities in Yunnan’s southwestern borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Qing dynasty (1644-1911) was forced to rely on chieftainship administrative space and its tribal inhabitants as unreliable bulwarks against incursions by “wild” tribals and Myanmar primarily because Han Chinese vulnerability to malaria precluded a more stable and direct Qing official presence. The article examines the Qing construction of both chieftainship and wild tribals, as well as the ethnic administrative spaces intended to keep these two identities separate, as products of the interaction between disease and human agency. It concludes that the Qing frontier order in southwest Yunnan was a compromise with both malarial nature and tribal culture
Agency (philosophy · Biology · Compromise · Development economics · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Malaria · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |