A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China: Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy Under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China

by Jennifer Took

For nearly 700 years, the Chinese state exercised control over the minority peoples in its border provinces through the hereditary native chieftaincies (tusi). Utilizing fieldwork carried out by PRC authorities in the 1950s, this book investigates a Zhuang tusi in Guangxi. It explores the history and institutions of the tusi system, and discusses the dual quality of the tusi chieftaincy as a Chinese franchise and a non-Chinese polity. It describes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004147977
• ISBN13: 9789004147973
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"