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How to Research the Multiethnic Empire and Its Colonial Legacy: a Response Paper to "Reconciling Peoples and Places" by Loretta Kim.
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Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient . 2024, Vol. 67 Issue 5/6, p603-615. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Current and past historical research on Russia and China's borderlands heavily relies on the concept of ethnicity. Both the Russian and Qing empires ascribed to an "ethnic mode of ruling" in their borderlands, reflected in the estate inorodtsy and the Eight Banner system. In view of how strongly state-determined categories of ethnic identification can influence historical analysis, this paper observes that the focus of research is shifting from "ethnicity" to "regionality". The paper also explores how the communist regimes in Russia and China of the 20th century handled the legacy of the multiethnic empire with the politicization of ethnic groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *IMPERIALISM
*HISTORICAL analysis
*ETHNICITY
*BORDERLANDS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00224995
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 5/6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179256870
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341630