Managing Frontiers in Qing China : The Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the __Lifanyuan__ and __Libu__, revising and assessing the state of affairs in the under-researched field of these two institutions. The contributors explore the imperial policies towards and the shifting classifications of minority groups in the Qing Empire. This volume offers insight into how China's past has continued to inform its modern policies, as well as the geopolitical make-up of East Asia and beyond. Contents 5 Preface 7 Acknowledgments 10 List of Maps, Illustrations and Tables 11 Emperors and Dynasties 12 Contributors 14 Introduction 17 Chapter 1 Lifanyuan and Libu in Early Qing Empire Building 59 Chapter 2 The Lifanyuan: A Review Based on New Sources and Traditional Historiography 86 Chapter 3 The Lifanyuan and Stability during Qing Imperial Expansion 108 Chapter 4 The Libu and Qing Perception, Classification and Administration of Non-Han People 132 Chapter 5 Lifanyuan and Libu in the Qing Tribute System 160 Chapter 6 The Qing Court and Peoples of Central and Inner Asia: Representations of Tributary Relationships from the Huang Qing Zhigong tu 201 Chapter 7 Manchu-Mongolian Controversies over Judicial Competence and the Formation of the Lifanyuan 240 Chapter 8 The Sino-Russian Trade and the Role of the Lifanyuan, 17th–18th Centuries 270 Chapter 9 On Lifanyuan and Qianlong Policies Towards the Muslims of Xinjiang 306 Chapter 10 Lifanyuan and Tibet 328 Chapter 11 From Lifanyuan to the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission 352 Chapter 12 Clashes of Administrative Nationalisms: Banners and Leagues vs. Counties and Provinces in Inner Mongolia 365 Chapter 13 Dealing with Nationalities in Imperial Formations: How Russian and Chinese Agencies Managed Ethnic Diversity in the 17th to 20th Centuries 405 Glossary 451 Index 461 In Managing Frontiers in Qing China , historians and anthropologists explore China's imperial expansion in Inner Asia, focusing on early Qing empire-building in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and beyond - Central Asian perspectives and comparisons to Russia's Asian empire are included. Taking an institutional-historical and historical-anthropological approach, the essays engage with two Qing agencies well-known for their governance of non-Han groups: the Lifanyuan and Libu . This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Lifanyuan and Libu , revising and assessing the state of affairs in the under-researched field of these two institutions. The contributors explore the imperial policies towards and the shifting classifications of minority groups in the Qing Empire, explicitly pairing and comparing the Lifanyuan and Libu as in some sense cognate agencies. This text offers insight into how China's past has continued to inform its modern policies, as well as the geopolitical make-up of East Asia and beyond. Contributors include: Uradyn E. Bulag, Chia Ning, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Nicola DiCosmo, Dorothea Heuschert-Laage, Laura Hostetler, Fabienne Jagou, Mei-hua Lan, Dittmar Schorkowitz, Song Tong, Michael Weiers,Ye Baichuan, Yuan Jian, Zhang Yongjiang