Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China
(Book #441 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Opportunity in Crisis explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and reconstruction and the impact of those developments on the relationship between state and local elites on the Guangxi frontier. By situating Cantonese upriver and overseas migration within the same framework, Steven Miles reconceives the late Qing as an age of Cantonese diasporic expansion rather than one of state decline...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674251202
ISBN13:9780674251205
Release Date:March 2021
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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