Between Winds and Clouds

The Making of Yunnan

By: Bin Yang

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Hardcover | 11 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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350 Pages

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Between Winds and Clouds tells the two-thousand-year history of Yunnan, an ethnic frontier bordered by Tibet, mainland Southeast Asia, and southwest China. Yunnan's prime geographic location turned the site into a center of cross-regional trade, and consequently, it became a desirable conquest for Eurasian rivals.

Bin Yang details the fight for military control of Yunnan and its demographic, administrative, and economic transformation into a local entity. In conclusion, he discusses the impact of Yunnan's imperial legacy on modern state building, or, conversely, the way in which the modern state has contributed to the development of imperial discourse. Deploying a unique cross-regional approach, Yang brings the activities of Southeast and East Asia, Tibet, the Indian Ocean, and modern Europe to bear on the history of Yunnan, emphasizing both the local and the international forces that played a role in the region's long-term transformation.

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...Greatly enriches our understanding of China's transformation from an empire into a modern nation-state. The China Quarterly Between Winds and Clouds makes an insightful survey that should be read by all those interested in the history of Southwest China. -- Roderich Ptak Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Highly accessible... [Between Winds and Clouds] fills a void in Yunnan Studies. Yang is to be commended for taking on such a large project with such erudition. -- Michael Brose China Review International

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Asian History Earliest Times to Present Day

Dedication	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Southwest Silk Road	p. 23
Military Campaigns against Yunnan	p. 72
Rule Based on Native Customs	p. 102
Sinicization and Indigenization	p. 141
Silver, Cowries, and Copper	p. 192
Classification into the Chinese National Family	p. 242
Conclusion	p. 280
Romanized Terms	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 317
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The Making of Yunnan

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