Empire at the margins :  culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / 
  Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China 
edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donal d S. Sutton. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2006. 
 - x, 378 p. :  maps ;  24 cm. 
 - Studies on China ;   28 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Identity at the heart of empire -- Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott -- Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley - - "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jona than N. Lipman -- Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers -- The Q ing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby -- The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incor poration of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman -- Part III. Old co ntests of the south and southwest -- The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and t heir impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure -- Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton -- Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644 -1800 / Anne Csete -- Part IV. Uncharted boundaries -- Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan -- Lin eage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of so uth China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520230159 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005-018339 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnicity--History.--China
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Ethnic relations--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.8/009510903