Imperial Creation of Ethnicity

Liping Wang, Ph.D. (2013), the University of Chicago, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Peking University. She has published many articles on ethnicity, nationalism and knowledge production. Her publications appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, and Modern China, among others.

• AcknowledgementsList of Tables, Maps and FiguresIntroduction1 Ethnogenesis in the Near Frontier2 The Administration of the Empire3 The Organization of the Book1 Mapping Out the Mongolian Identities1 The Center-Periphery Model2 The Frontier Space of Inner Mongolia3 The Feudal Tradition of Mongols4 The Mongolian Banners5 The Mongol-Manchu Alliance6 The Incorporation of Mongols into the Qing State7 The Exceptional Case of Hulun Buir8 Empires and Cross-Identifications2 Land Reform and State Centralization1 A Natural Erosion of Nomadic Feudalism2 The Late Qing Land Reform3 The Changing Utility of Land in fangken4 Colonization or Political Consolidation?5 The Nexuses of Ruling Powers6 The Puzzle of Mongolian Cooperation3 Revolution, Warlordism and Ethnic Confrontation1 The Revolutionary Turbulence2 Mongolian Reactions to the Revolution3 Intrusion of Provincial Governments4 Emerging Local Conflicts5 The Age of Warlordism6 Transforming the Frontier Governance Structure7 Military Colonization4 Ethnicizing Boundaries in the Legal Jurisdiction1 Legal Pluralism under the Imperial Rule2 The Motley Jurisdictions in Eastern Inner Mongolia3 Navigating the Disparate Legal Spaces4 Reshuffling the Mongolian Legal Jurisdiction5 The End of Legal Pluralism?5 The Mongolian Shift in Hulun Buir1 Tribal Soldiers in a Mobile Garrison System2 Territorializing the Governments in Hulun Buir3 Territorial Administration in Hulun Buir4 Becoming Mongols5 Striving for Mongolian Autonomy6 The Intellectual Construct7 Territorialization and Ethno-GenesisConclusionAppendix 1: Administrative Experiences of the Frontier Military Officials, 1900–1916Appendix 2: Administrative Experiences of the Frontier Military Officials, 1917–1928Glossary of TermsBibliographyIndex