Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism : How the Qing Frontier and Its Indigenes Became Chinese

The first full length treatment of ethnic and national identity in early Twentieth-century China, Leibold traces the political and cultural strategies employed by Han Chinese elites in the process of incorporating, both discursively and physically, the diverse inhabitants of the last Qing dynasty into a new, homogenous national community. Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 13 1 From Empire to Nation: The Bounding of the Chinese Geo-body 29 Part I: Strategies of Political Intervention 60 2 Borderlands of State Power: The Nationalists and the Frontier Question 61 3 Domesticating Minzu: The Communists and the National Question 90 Part II: Narratives of Cultural Innovation 119 4 From the Yellow Emperor to Peking Man: The Nationalists and the Construction of Zhonghua minzu 120 5 Han Man’s Burden: The Communists and the Construction of Zhonghua minzu 153 Conclusion 182 Notes 189 References 222 Index 257 Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-16 From Empire to Nation: The Bounding of the Chinese Geo-body....Pages 17-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Borderlands of State Power: The Nationalists and the Frontier Question....Pages 51-79 Domesticating Minzu: The Communists and the National Question....Pages 81-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 From the Yellow Emperor to Peking Man: The Nationalists and the Construction of Zhonghua minzu....Pages 113-145 Han Man’s Burden: The Communists and the Construction of Zhonghua minzu....Pages 147-175 Conclusion....Pages 177-183 Back Matter....Pages 185-271