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Reluctant Pioneers - China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 (Hardcover, New)
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Reluctant Pioneers - China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Reluctant Pioneers describes the migration of Chinese to Manchuria,
their settlement there, and the incorporation of Manchuria into an
expanding China, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
The expansion of Chinese state and society from the agrarian and
urban core of China proper to the territories north and west of the
Great Wall doubled the size of the empire, forming the "China" now
so prominent on the map of Asia. The movement and settlement of
people, clearing and cultivation of land, invasions of soldiers,
circulation of merchants, and establishment of government offices
extended the boundaries of China at the same time that the American
expansion westward and the Russian expansion eastward created the
other great landed empires that dominated the twentieth century and
persist today. The chief purpose of this book is to describe the
Chinese experience and what it tells us about the expansion of
states and societies, drawing comparisons with Russia and America,
and reflecting on the nature of what scholars since Frederick
Jackson Turner have called "frontiers" and what Turner's critics
now call "borderlands" or "middle ground." In addition, the book
touches on several other issues central to our understanding of
modern China, such as the development of the Chinese economy and
the nature of Chinese migration.
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