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David G. Atwill - The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873 - 9780804751599 - V9780804751599
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The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873

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Description for The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873 Hardback.

The Muslim-led Panthay Rebellion was one of five mid-nineteenth-century rebellions to threaten the Chinese imperial court. The Chinese Sultanate begins by contrasting the views of Yunnan held by the imperial center with local and indigenous perspectives, in particular looking at the strong ties the Muslim Yunnanese had with Southeast Asia and Tibet. Traditional interpretations of the rebellion there have emphasized the political threat posed by the Muslim Yunnanese, but no prior study has sought to understand the insurrection in its broader muti-ethnic borderland context. At its core, the book delineates the escalating government support of premeditated massacres of the Hui ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804751599
SKU
V9780804751599
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About David G. Atwill
David G. Atwill is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Religion at Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews for The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873
"[Atwill] has exhausted all the available sources. Open-mindedly, he has not selected one of the contemporary theories about inter-ethnic strife (or border strife) and arranged the facts neatly around it... Atwill's book about the Panthay Rebellion is valuable reading for persons interested in the economic and political history of minorities in China."
H-Net "Because of the compelling history that ... Read more

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