A Frontier Made Lawless by Joseph Lawson PAPERBACK 9780774833707

A Frontier Made Lawless\nby Joseph Lawson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joseph Lawson\nTitle: A Frontier Made Lawless\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: University of British Columbia Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9780774833707\nISBN-10: 077483370X\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. Large numbers of Nuosu and Han alike were kidnapped and killed in widespread patterns of captive taking. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless challenges the view that the persistent tur.