Contingent Loyalties

Diana Duan teaches history at Brigham Young University-Provo. She is interested in China and Southeast Asia, with focuses on borderlands, ethnic economy and culture, migration, environmental history, and the CCP history. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

Introduction: Contingent Loyalties
Chapter 1: The Han Homelands in the Multiethnic Qing Borderlands
Chapter 2: Investigating and Writing about the Margary Affair
Chapter 3: From Bandits to Heroes
Chapter 4: The Imperial Agents in the Contested Realms
Chapter 5: Documenting the Hui Rebellion and Genocide
Chapter 6: Trading while Fighting
Chapter 7: The Imperial Frontier and the Native Lands of Inheritance
Chapter 8: Modernisation or Separatism? Competing Narratives of the Revolution
Conclusion
Index