本書圍繞基督教對於中國少數民族,邊疆民族等地區的多元民族社會的作用與影響展開,尤其對近代以來多元民族的中西文化交流作了著重探討,包括了外籍傳教士與中國的邊疆地區,近代中國少數民族對基督教的認識,傳教士對少數民族文化的研究等具有代表性的課題.--Publisher note (OCLC record).

本書內容包括：外籍傳教土與中國的邊疆服務運動、晚清傳教土與中國穆斯林的相遇與對話、蒙元初期來蒙古漢廷傳教土的翻譯人員研究、嘉慶十年旗人奉教案探析等。

Part I. Identity at the heart of empire -- Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott -- Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers -- The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby -- The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman -- Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest -- The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure -- Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton -- Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete -- Part IV. Uncharted boundaries -- Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan -- Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei.

Focusing on the Ming and Qing eras, this book analyses crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional and religious identities. It demonstrates how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.

Physical and online versions available at Gleeson Library.
Local access dig. pdf [Crossley-Empire at the Margin.pdf]

Further information on Mongolian code see Legalizing space in China.
Local access dig.pdf. [Chia-Lifanyuan.pdf]

Sino-Judaica : occasional papers of the Sino-Judaic Institute.
Irregular.
Vol. 1 (1991)-
Title from cover.
Library has volume 1 (1991) only.

Nigel Thomas: Râdhânites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the Steppes -- Wendy Abraham: The role of Confucian and Jewish educational values in the assimilation of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, supplemented by Western observer accounts, 1605-1985 -- Donald Daniel Leslie: The Old Testament and Biblical figures in Chinese sources -- Andrew H. Plaks: The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews: interpretations of the K’ai-feng Stelae inscriptions -- Kong Xianyi [孔憲易]: Delving into the Israelite religion of Kaifeng: the patriotic scholar Shi Jingxun 時經訓 and his Study of the origins of the Plucking the Sinews Sect of Henan (Henan tiaojinjiao yuanliukao 河南挑筋教源流考)

本文首次系統利用"蒙文老檔", "蒙古堂檔", 滿漢文"康熙起居註冊"等重要史料, 結合"朔漠方略", "秦邊紀略"等清代官私史籍, 在前人研究的基礎上比較全面系統和深入地探討了噶爾丹統治時期1672-1697)的準噶爾與清朝之間的政治關係, 經貿往來及軍事衝突, 力圖展現這25年清準關係的真實面貌.--OCLC record note.