Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism: How The Qing Frontier And Its Indigenes Became Chinese

摘要

James Leibold's Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism is an original and significant contribution to modern Chinese history, and to the body of work on nationalism and the construction of national identity. Of the large land-based empires of the 19th century, only China survived as a modern nation-state with its imperial territory intact. Such empires were, by definition, multi-ethnic, with ethnic minorities often positioned on the peripheries. The break-up of the empire typically meant fragmentation along ethnic lines.