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dc.contributor.authorDuan, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T12:48:40Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T12:48:40Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88622
dc.description.abstractFrom the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors shaped the history of Yunnan through their extensive cross-border networks and contradictory roles in the attempted state consolidation of this contested area. Among the local elites, the state agents, both Han and non-Han, acted on the state's behalf in the borderlands’ affairs while seeking the balance between the interests of the state and their own communities. The state agents competed with each other while utilising and wresting with the state authorities. The dynamic relationship between the state and local actors created another contested facet of modern Yunnan’s transformation. Competing narratives emerged when local actors negotiated and reconstructed their status within the contemporary Chinese nation-state. Bandits became heroes; separatists became patriots; a vibrant regional center became an isolated, exotic, and marginal province of the People’s Republic of China.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAsian Borderlandsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSL Geopoliticsen_US
dc.subject.otherYunnan, borderlands, frontier, Southeast Asia, Chinaen_US
dc.titleContingent Loyaltiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeState Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856-1911)en_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789048558995en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857aen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789048558995en_US
oapen.series.number20en_US
oapen.pages318en_US
oapen.place.publicationAmsterdamen_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: BYU College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences


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