Transforming Inner Mongolia : commerce, migration, and colonization on the Qing frontier /

This groundbreaking book analyzes the dramatic impact of Han Chinese migration into Inner Mongolia during the Qing era. In the first detailed history in English, Yi Wang explores how processes of commercial expansion, land reclamation and Catholic proselytism transformed the Mongol frontier long bef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wang, Yi, 1972 April 26- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021].
Subjects:	Inner Mongolia (China) > History. Migration, Internal > China > Inner Mongolia. China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. Borderlands > China > History. Mongols > Ethnic relations. Inner Mongolia (China) > Economic conditions.

Table of Contents:

A changing frontier : inner Mongolia in context
Merchants, monetization, and networking : Han commercial expansion in the steppe
Sojourning and settlement across Han-Mongol borders
The rise of land merchants : irrigation, commercialization, and local autonomy in Hetao
Cultivation for salvation : missionaries, migrants, and Catholic expansion
Solidifying the frontier : official reclamation and state building.