A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China

Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy Under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14797-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

For nearly 700 years, the Chinese state exercised control over the minority peoples in its border provinces through the hereditary native chieftaincies (tusi). Utilizing fieldwork carried out by PRC authorities in the 1950s, this book investigates a Zhuang tusi in Guangxi. It explores the history and institutions of the tusi system, and discusses the dual quality of the tusi chieftaincy as a Chinese franchise and a non-Chinese polity. It describes the social structure, village administration and land tenure system of this tusi, the customary institutions of its ruling clan, and the impact of the replacement by direct Chinese rule in the 20th century. It also sheds light on the political management of the strategically sensitive Chinese-Vietnamese border over 600 years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Took, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Took, Ph.D. (2002) in Chinese Studies, The University of Melbourne, is a Lawyer and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, The University of Melbourne.