Abstract
A Lifanyuan-centered inquiry into Qing history raises statecraft-focused questions: which workings of the Qing statecraft actually accomplished the integration of the Inner Asian people? How were the tensions in the relationship between Inner Asia and the long-lasting dynastic center overcome?
This paper presents an analysis of Lifanyuan governance through ‘social systems’, on which the center-periphery relations were built, and of Lifanyuan management of ‘social entities’, in which the local Inner Asian communities were organized following their own conventions but under Qing supervision. The banner system for the Mongols, the Dalai-amban system for the Tibetans inside heartland Tibet, the tusi system for the Amdo Tibetans in Qinghai, and the beg system for the Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang preserved and sustained four types of social entities centered on each people’s culture and identity. Considering the growing studies of borders and frontiers in relation to concepts of nation, state, and empire-state, this study treats Lifanyuan as a historical “agent” in the Qing Empire formation during the 17th and 18th centuries and discusses its long-term impact on China reaching up to the 21st century.

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Contents: Xu 序 / Lu Yaodong 逯耀東 -- Daolun 導論 / Zha Shijie 查時傑 -- Guoshi kuoda mian yan de yi ge kanfa 國史擴大綿延的一個看法 / Yao Congwu 姚從吾 -- Zhongguo minzu de qiyuan yu gouzao 中國民族的起源與構造 / Zheng Dekun 鄭德坤 -- Zhongguo minzu yu wailai wenhua 中國民族與外來文化 / Fu Lecheng 傳樂成 -- Zhongguo chuantong zhengzhi 中國傳統政治 / Qian Mu 錢穆 -- Zhongguo kaoshi zhidu wenhua shehui fengsu de guanxi 中國考試制度與政治文化社會風俗的關係 / Deng Siyu 鄧嗣禹 -- Cong huobi zhidu kan Zhongguo jingji de fazhan 從貨幣制度看中國經濟的發展 / Quan Hansheng 全漢昇 -- Zhongguo shehui daodi shi shenme shehui 中國社會到底是什麼社會 / Tao Xisheng 陶希聖 -- Zhongguo de chuantong shehui 中國的傳統社會 / Jin Yaoji 金耀基 -- Zhongguo de jiazu 中國的家族 / Lei Haizong 雷海宗 -- Zhongguo wenhua zhong zhi meijie renwu 中國文化中之媒介人物 / Yang Liansheng 楊聯陞 -- Bianjiang minzu zai Zhongguo lishi shang de zhongyaoxing 邊疆民族在中國歷史上的重要性 / Tao Jinsheng 陶晉生 -- Zhongguo xin shiqi shidai wenhua de yiban xiangmao 中國新石器時代文化的一般相貎 / Zhang Guangzhi 張光直.

Reprint of the ed. with postscript dated 1973.