Contingent Loyalties

State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856-1911)
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17760-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors shaped the history of Yunnan through their extensive cross-border networks and contradictory roles in the attempted state consolidation of this contested area. Among the local elites, the state agents, both Han and non-Han, acted on behalf of the state in the borderlands’ affairs while seeking the balance between the interests of the state and their own communities. The state agents competed with each other while utilising and wrestling with the state authorities. The dynamic relationship between the state and local actors created another contested facet of modern Yunnan’s transformation. Competing narratives emerged when local actors negotiated and reconstructed their status within the contemporary Chinese nation-state. Bandits became heroes; separatists became patriots; a vibrant regional center became an isolated, exotic, and marginal province of the People’s Republic of China.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duan, Diana Zhidan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Contingent Loyalties, Chapter 1: The Han Homelands in the Multiethnic Qing Borderlands, Chapter 2: Investigating and Writing about the Margary Affair, Chapter 3: From Bandits to Heroes, Chapter 4: The Imperial Agents in the Contested Realms, Chapter 5: Documenting the Hui Rebellion and Genocide, Chapter 6: Trading while Fighting, Chapter 7: The Imperial Frontier and the Native Lands of Inheritance, Chapter 8: Modernisation or Separatism? Competing Narratives of the Revolution, Conclusion, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Duan teaches history at Brigham Young University-Provo. She is interested in China and Southeast Asia, with focuses on borderlands, ethnic economy and culture, migration, environmental history, and the CCP history. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.