Article ID: CBB067920677

History and Autoethnography: Accounting for the Indigenous population of Yunnan, 1550–1650 (2021)

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From its inception in the thirteenth century, Chinese imperial rule of Yunnan, its most southwestern province, involved written accounts of the region's Indigenous population. In local gazetteers, officials used conventionalised categories and tropes to describe and order the people they ruled. By the sixteenth century, sons of local elite families routinely received classical Chinese educations and were beginning to compile their own gazetteers. This article argues that local writers, including men of both Indigenous and migrant descent, used historical narrative to inscribe themselves as subjects in descriptions of Yunnan's people and in so doing to claim membership of the imperial governing class.

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Authors & Contributors
Yen, Hsiao-pei
Hostetler, Laura
True, Micah
Jin, Xiaoxing
Fajardo, José del Rey
Buchan, Bruce
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Science and politics
Imperialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Ethnography
Colonialism
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
20th century, early
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Early modern
Places
China
Spain
Tahiti
Arctic regions
Himalayan Mountains (Nepal)
Romania
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
East India Company (English)
Habsburg, House of
Royal Society of London
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