The Imperial Creation of Ethnicity: Chinese Policies and the Ethnic Turn in Inner Mongolian Politics, 1900-1930 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004511637)

How did inter-ethnic solidarity become attenuated in the era of the Chinese imperial transformation (1900-1930)? Based on Inner Mongolian cases, this book examines the transformations effective in the policy domains of land affairs, military organization, and law, which were initiated to strengthen state centralization, yet resulted in the sharpening of ethnic boundaries.
Using unpublished archival sources, this book benefits from three key strengths. It addresses the question of Mongol-Han relationship in the early Republican period (1911-1930), it illuminates the details of imperial administration and its changes along with the shift of the regime, and it explores the theoretical potentials of the near frontier approach and positions the Chinese imperial transition within a comparative perspective.

Author: Liping Wang
ISBN-10: 9004511636
ISBN-13: 9789004511637
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2022
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d