Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion

by Jodi L. Weinstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029599326X
• ISBN13: 9780295993263
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher