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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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2011
Lanham, Md. : [2011], ©2011 Lanham, Md. : c2011 Lanham, Md. : ©2011 Lanham, Md. : [2011] |
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Table of Contents:
- Qing Discourse and Capability in Eastern Tibet
- Frontier Society and Power
- Lu Chuanlin's "Great Game" in Nyarong
- Frontier Incident and War Making
- State Violence and Local Resistance : the Kham War
- "Regularization" Reconsidered : Variants of Gaitu Guiliu in Northern Kham
- Fashioning an "Inner Region beyond the Pass"
- Developing the West : Opening Kham Lands, Mines and Young Minds
- Character List