A Frontier Made Lawless
Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
A Frontier Made Lawless
Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Conflict over Land in the Longue Durée
2 Violence and the Structures of Power in the Qing Empire, 1800–1911
3 Growing Poppies, Firearms, and Populations: Expansion and Consequences of Trade
4 Law in a Lawless Land: Liangshan, 1911–37
5 The Prisoners of Liangshan: Captivity and Alterity
6 The Nationalist Party in Liangshan, 1937–49
Coda: The Communist Takeover and Liangshan in World History
Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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