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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156853108X327164 Asian Journal of Social Science 36 (2008) 681–693 www.brill.nl/ajss Book Reviews Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu, and Donald S. Sutton (eds) (2006) Empire at the Mar- gins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China . Berkeley: University of Cali- fornia Press. ISBN: 0520230159. Th is collection of essays attempts a synthesis of several themes in the field of Chinese his- tory, namely the frontier, ethnicity, and culture. In grappling with these conceptual themes in the history of early modern China, they offer a critique of a fundamental theme underly- ing Chinese historiography, namely the sinicisation process. In ways somewhat similar to Prasenjit Duara’s deconstruction of the concept of the Chinese “nation” and its underlying assumptions about Han ‘Chinese-ness’ in twentieth century Chinese history, this volume, by looking at negotiations and contestations between state and society in the constructions and definitions of ethnic identity at the frontiers of the Ming and Qing Empires in Chinese history, attempts to contest a fundamental assumption in Chinese historiography, that of ‘sinification’. Rather than seeing the history of China as the gradual spread of Han Chinese culture with imperial expansion, the essays focus
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Published: Jan 1, 2008
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