Empire and Identity in Guizhou

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Empire and Identity in Guizhou is written by Jodi L. Weinstein and published by University of Washington Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0295804815 (ISBN 10) and 9780295804811 (ISBN 13).

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804811 This historical investigation describes the Qing imperial authorities’ attempts to consolidate control over the Zhongjia, a non-Han population, in eighteenth-century Guizhou, a poor, remote, and environmentally harsh province in Southwest China. Far from submitting peaceably to the state’s quest for hegemony, the locals clung steadfastly to livelihood choices—chiefly illegal activities such as robbery, raiding, and banditry—that had played an integral role in their cultural and economic survival. Using archival materials, indigenous folk narratives, and ethnographic research, Jodi Weinstein shows how these seemingly subordinate populations challenged state power.