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Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion

Posted By: roxul
Date: 20 Dec 2021 15:16:43
Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion

Jodi L. Weinstein, "Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion "
English | ISBN: 0295993278 | 2013 | 208 pages | PDF | 1497 KB

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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