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Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.

Ethnicity --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- History. --- China --- Ethnic relations --- S11/1210 --- History --- China: Social sciences--Works on the national minorities and special groups in China: general and before 1949 (Tibetans, Mongols etc. see Tibet, Mongolia ... but social relations between Chinese and these minorities come here) --- asia. --- avars. --- bandits. --- chinese culture. --- chinese history. --- colonialism. --- conquest. --- dan. --- empire. --- ethnicity. --- foreign policy. --- frontier. --- gender. --- guizhou. --- hainan highlands. --- han. --- history. --- imperialism. --- independence. --- islam. --- kingdoms. --- kitans. --- manchu. --- miao. --- ming dynasty. --- ming empire. --- mongols. --- mountains. --- muslim. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- pearl river. --- pirates. --- provinces. --- qiang. --- qing empire. --- qing law. --- race. --- rebellion. --- religion. --- resistance. --- smuggling. --- social order. --- tusi. --- uyghurs. --- war. --- women in history. --- yao wars. --- yao. --- yunnan.