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The Making of the Chinese State

In this innovative and well-crafted study of the relationships between the

state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China’s modern

ethnic conﬁgurations to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Challenging

the traditional view that China’s expansion was primarily an exercise of

incorporation and assimilation, Shin argues that as the center extended

its reach to the wild and inhospitable south, the political interests of

the state, the economic needs of the settlers, and the imaginations of the

cultural elites all facilitated the demarcation and categorization of the

borderland “non-Chinese” populations. The story told here, however,

extends beyond the imperial period. Just as Ming emperors considered it

essential to reinforce a sense of universal order by demarcating the “non-

Chinese,” modern-day Chinese rulers also ﬁnd it critical to maintain the

myth of a unitary multi-national state by ofﬁcially recognizing a total of

ﬁfty-six “nationalities.”

. is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at the

University of British Columbia.

The Making of the

Chinese State

Ethnicity and Expansion on

the Ming Borderlands

Leo K. Shin

University of British Columbia

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Shin, Leo Kwok-yueh, 1967–

The making of the Chinese state: ethnicity and expansion on the Ming

borderlands / Leo. K. Shin.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-521-85354-0 (hardcover)

1. Minorities – Government policy – China – Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu –

History. 2. Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China) – Ethnic relations – History.

I. Title: Ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands. II. Title.

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