China's last imperial frontier : late Qing expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan borderlands /
China's Last Imperial Frontier examines imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last Qing decades. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftains and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region of Kham, seeking to replace...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2011
Lanham, Md. : [2011], ©2011 Lanham, Md. : c2011 Lanham, Md. : ©2011 Lanham, Md. : [2011] |
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| Summary: | China's Last Imperial Frontier examines imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last Qing decades. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftains and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region of Kham, seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by integrating the politically diverse frontier into a system of Chinese-style counties. Historically, at all of Kham's strategic frontier locations, local institutions outstripped the Chinese state in political, military, and ideological power. With perceived threats from the Anglo-Russian "Great Game" accentuating Qing vulnerability in central Tibet, the Sichuan provincial government took advantage of the frontier crisis to encroach upon local and Lhasa domains in Kham. Although the frontier campaign was portrayed in Qing official discourses as a part of the nationwide reforms of "New Policies" (xinzheng) and administrative regularization (gaitu guiliu), its actual course on the ground was influenced primarily by the dynamics of Sichuan's competition with central Tibet, power struggles among Qing frontier officials, and Kham's internal configurations of power. The growing regionalism intensified the resistance of local forces to Qing authority. Although the late Qing campaign produced very uneven results, it nevertheless has become an important source of policy inspiration and sovereignty claims for the succeeding governments. Book jacket "China's Last Imperial Frontier examines imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last Qing decades. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftains and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region of Kham, seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by integrating the politically diverse frontier into a system of Chinese-style counties. Historically, at all of Kham's strategic frontier locations, local institutions outstripped the Chinese state in political, military, and ideological power. With perceived threats from the Anglo-Russian "Great Game" accentuating Qing vulnerability in central Tibet, the Sichuan provincial government took advantage of the frontier crisis to encroach upon local and Lhasa domains in Kham. Although the frontier campaign was portrayed in Qing official discourses as a part of the nationwide reforms of "New Policies" (xinzheng) and administrative regularization (gaitu guiliu), its actual course on the ground was influenced primarily by the dynamics of Sichuan's competition with central Tibet, power struggles among Qing frontier officials, and Kham's internal configurations of power. The growing regionalism intensified the resistance of local forces to Qing authority."--Book jacket |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xv, 291 p. ; 24 cm xv, 291 pages : maps ; 24 cm xv, 291 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0739168096 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739168096 073916810X (ebook) 073916810X 0739184598 9780739168097 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780739168097 9780739168103 (ebook) 9780739168103 9780739184592 |