A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956 by Joseph Lawson

A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956

Contemporary Chinese Studies

Joseph Lawson

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu peoples clashed with Han migrant communities, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first Engli...

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