The Transformation Of Yunnan In Ming China

Author : Christian Daniels,Jianxiong Ma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000762471

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The Transformation of Yunnan in Ming China by Christian Daniels,Jianxiong Ma Pdf

This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation as a province by the Yuan regime in 1276 did not disrupt Dali kingdom style political, social and religious institutions. It was the Ming state in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries through its institutions for military and civilian control which brought about profound changes and truly transformed local society into a province. In contrast to other studies which have portrayed Yunnan as a non-Han frontier region waiting to be colonised, this book, by focusing on changes in local society, casts off the idea of Yunnan as a border area far from civilisation. Chapters 1, 2, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Fei HUANG
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004362567

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Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China by Fei HUANG Pdf

Fei HUANG examines the process of landscape making in Dongchuan, the key copper-mining region in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.

Author : Charles Patterson Giersch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0674021711

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Asian Borderlands by Charles Patterson Giersch Pdf

With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.

Author : Kathlene Baldanza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107124240

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Ming China and Vietnam by Kathlene Baldanza Pdf

Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China and Vietnam, by contrast, relies on sources and viewpoints from both sides of the border, for a truly transnational history of Sino-Viet relations. Kathlene Baldanza offers a detailed examination of geopolitical and cultural relations between Ming China (1368-1644) and Dai Viet, the state that would go on to become Vietnam. She highlights the internal debates and external alliances that characterized their diplomatic and military relations in the pre-modern period, showing especially that Vietnamese patronage of East Asian classical culture posed an ideological threat to Chinese states. Baldanza presents an analysis of seven linked biographies of Chinese and Vietnamese border-crossers whose lives illustrate the entangled histories of those countries.

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924079

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The Confusions of Pleasure by Timothy Brook Pdf

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of the Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status. The Confusions of Pleasure marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been written. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue durée in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life. Peppered with stories of real people and their negotiations of a rapidly changing world, this book provides a new way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.

Author : Stephan Haggard,David C. Kang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108479875

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East Asia in the World by Stephan Haggard,David C. Kang Pdf

This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

Author : Matthew Mosca
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804785389

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From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy by Matthew Mosca Pdf

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British sources to reveal the information networks used by the Qing empire to gather intelligence about its emerging rival, British India, this book explores China's altered understanding of its place in a global context. Far from being hobbled by a Sinocentric worldview, Qing China's officials and scholars paid close attention to foreign affairs. To meet the growing British threat, they adapted institutional practices and geopolitical assumptions to coordinate a response across their maritime and inland borderlands. In time, the new and more active response to Western imperialism built on this foundation reshaped not only China's diplomacy but also the internal relationship between Beijing and its frontiers.

Author : Bin Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Yunnan Sheng (China)
ISBN : LCCN:2009002814

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Between Winds and Clouds by Bin Yang Pdf

Author : Wu Cheng'en
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812298898

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Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en Pdf

The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!

Author : Timothy Brook,Michael van Walt van Praag,Miek Boltjes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226562933

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Sacred Mandates by Timothy Brook,Michael van Walt van Praag,Miek Boltjes Pdf

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex history of inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia from the thirteenth century to the twentieth, in order to help us understand and develop policies to address challenges in the region today. This book argues that understanding the diversity of past legal orders helps explain the forms of contemporary conflict, as well as the conflicting historical narratives that animate tensions. Rather than proceed sequentially by way of dynasties, the editors identify three “worlds”—Chingssid Mongol, Tibetan Buddhist, and Confucian Sinic—that represent different forms of civilization authority and legal order. This novel framework enables us to escape the modern tendency to view the international system solely as the interaction of independent states, and instead detect the effects of the complicated history at play between and within regions. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines cover a host of topics: the development of international law, sovereignty, state formation, ruler legitimacy, and imperial expansion, as well as the role of spiritual authority on state behavior, the impact of modernization, and the challenges for peace processes. The culmination of five years of collaborative research, Sacred Mandates will be the definitive historical guide to international and intrastate relations in Asia, of interest to policymakers and scholars alike, for years to come.

Author : Jonathan N. Lipman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800554

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Familiar Strangers by Jonathan N. Lipman Pdf

The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers narrates a history of the Muslims of northwest China, at the intersection of the frontiers of the Mongolian-Manchu, Tibetan, Turkic, and Chinese cultural regions. Based on primary and secondary sources in a variety of languages, Familiar Strangers examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once. Concerning itself with a frontier very distant from the core areas of Chinese culture and very strange to most Chinese, it explores the influence of language, religion, and place on Sino-Muslim identity.

Author : Michael Szonyi,Shiyu Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000283266

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The Chinese Empire in Local Society by Michael Szonyi,Shiyu Zhao Pdf

This book explores the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) military, its impact on local society, and its many legacies for Chinese society. It is based on extensive original research by scholars using the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach that has transformed the study of Chinese history by approaching the subject from the bottom up. Its nine chapters, each based on a different region of China, examine the nature of Ming military institutions and their interaction with local social life over time. Several chapters consider the distinctive role of imperial institutions in frontier areas and how they interacted with and affected non-Han ethnic groups and ethnic identity. Others discuss the long-term legacy of Ming military institutions, especially across the dynastic divide from Ming to Qing (1644-1912) and the implications of this for understanding more fully the nature of the Qing rule.

Author : Nanny Kim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004416178

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Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700‐1850 by Nanny Kim Pdf

Nanny Kim analyses two transports systems into the Southwest of Qing China, focussing on shipping on the Upper Changjiang and road transport into central Yunnan, examining concrete technologies, economics, and the transporters in local societies and environments.

Author : Joy L. K. Pachuau,Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781009276696

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Entangled Lives by Joy L. K. Pachuau,Willem van Schendel Pdf

This book considers three questions about understanding the past. How can we rethink human histories by including animals and plants? How can we overcome nationally territorialised narratives? And how can we balance academic history-writing and indigenous understandings of history? This is a tentative foray into the connections between these questions. Entangled Lives explore them for a large area that has seldom been explored in academic inquiry. The 'Eastern Himalayan Triangle' includes both uplands and lowlands. The region is the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots connecting India and China across Myanmar/Burma, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The 'Triangle' is treated as a multispecies site in which human histories have always been utterly intertwined with plant and animal histories. It foregrounds that history is co-created – it is always interspecies history – but that its contours are locally specific.

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415345065

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The Chinese State in Ming Society by Timothy Brook Pdf

This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.