Constructing Suiyuan : the politics of northwestern territory and development in early twentieth-century China

Constructing Suiyuan : the politics of northwestern territory and development in early twentieth-century China / by Justin Tighe.

This groundbreaking study sheds light on the mechanisms of Chinese nation and state making. Closely examining the remaking of Qing Inner Asia as Chinese provincial territory in the late Qing and Republican periods, the author focuses on the efforts of warlords and local Chinese elites in creating th...

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Main Author: Tighe, Justin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 15.
Subjects:
1900-1999
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Geschichte
Entstehung
Politieke ontwikkeling.
Geschichte 1820-1937.
Suiyuan Sheng (China) > Politics and government.
Suiyuan Sheng (China) > History.
China > History > 20th century.
China
China > Suiyuan Sheng
Provinz Suiyuan
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps and Tables; Abbreviations; A Note on Language and Referencing; Preface; Introduction Constructing Suiyuan; Chapter One Before Suiyuan: Qing Order Beyond the Pass; Chapter Two Territorial and Administrative Elaboration; Chapter Three Land Reclamation, Agriculture and Pastoralism; Chapter Four Poverty, Backwardness and Education; Chapter Five Suiyuan and the Challenge of Mongol Space; Chapter Six Suiyuan and the Rise of Beile-yin sume; Epilogue Suiyuan Effaced; Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms; Bibliography; Index.

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