The Daily Book | Fabrication Marginality: Xiangxi in the 10th-19th Centuries

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Synopsis

Xiangxi is located in the heart of China, why was it regarded as a "border city" until the Republic of China? After interacting with Huaxia for thousands of years, why is it not attached to Huaxia and is still the "edge" of Huaxia? What is the historical process and mechanism? China has created a miracle in the history of human civilization: a large number of people and a complex nation have achieved political unity and civilization continuation in a vast area. Then, how can the southwest region, which has complex ecology and livelihood and rich ethnic groups and cultures, be able to accommodate a large number of frontier and Chinese margins after integrating into the unified Chinese order, while maintaining a strong identification with China and the Chinese nation, becoming a successful model for the central dynasty's integration of border ethnic areas? In this regard, it is necessary to reflect on the explanatory framework based on the modern nation-state and to transcend the inertia of traditional Chinese historical writing. The Xiangxi case vividly demonstrates the importance of examining the "Southwest Tradition" and the manufacturing and operation of "marginality" by different groups of people under this tradition to re-understand the social integration of Southwest China and even China.

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General Introduction to the Series Towards the Historical Scene Chen Chunsheng I

Chapter 1 Marginality and the Integration of Southwest China 1

Section 1 Questions and Ideas 1

Section 2 Xiangxi, Research Materials and Methods 15

Section III Chapter Structure 25

Chapter 2 The Edge of Ambiguity: The Descendants of pans who are near and far away 28

Section 1 From Wuling Man to Pan Bao Man and Ruyi King 29

Section 2 China's Unruly Invasion of Siyi: The Southern and Northern Rivers of the Song Dynasty 44

Summary 59

Chapter Three: Whose Expansion: Toast, Miao Chaos, and the Fort Sentry Border Wall 62

Section 1 The Development of a New Pattern: The Introduction of the Toast System in the Yuan Dynasty and the Opening of New Roads 63

Section 2 People, Army, Natives, or Miao: Dynastic Expansion in the Southwest Pattern of the Late Yuan and Early Ming Dynasties 69

Verse 3 Only if the thief is there, will he be willing to destroy the thief: Miao Territory And Miao Chaos under the Defeat of the WeiShou 78

Section 4 Expansion of dynasties? Toast and Miaojiang's Fort Sentry, Border Wall 87

Summary 97

Chapter FOUR: The Quest for Different Orthodoxies: Marriage and Alliances and Genealogical Inheritance 101

Section 1 Contest: The Chinese Name, Marriage and Alliance of Toast 104

Section 2 Restructuring: The Creation of the Temple of the Literati and Poets, Silver and Toast 117

Section 3 The Earth King, the King's Ghost, and the Ancestors: The Power Structure and Ceremonial Order of the Toast/Earth King 135

Summary 145

Chapter Five: The Same Journey? The Practice of Returning Land to The Flow and Opening Up the Miao Frontier 149

Section I Empire: Local Administrative Mechanisms in Comparative Perspective 150

Section 2 Official Law and Miao Practices - Law and Etiquette in MiaoJiang 161

Section 3 Border Walls and TunZheng: The Reform of the Land System in Miaojiang 170

Summary 182

Chapter VI Etiquette and Orthodoxy: The Development and Cultural Identity of the Miao District from the Perspective of the White Emperor 185

Section I: Text and Oral Transmission: The Looming Feminine Tradition 188

Section 2 Han Surnames and Tu Chieftains: The Yang Clan of Miao Province under the Ming Empire System 198

Section 3 Gods and Ancestors: The Image of the Heavenly King Before and After the Canonization of the Heavenly King and the Middle Forehead of MiaoJiang 205

Summary 218

Chapter Seven: Marginality: The Integration of Southwest Tradition with Southwest China 221

Main bibliography 229

1, Basic historical materials 229

II. Research Papers 235

Postscript 253