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Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction
Part I. Manchu and Han Historical Conciousness in Flux
1. Whose Empire Shall It Be?
2. Toward Another Tang or Zhou?
Part II. Temporalities of National Subjugation and Resistance
3. Contesting Chinese Time, Nationalizing Temporal Space
4. Mongol Time Enters a Qing World
Part III. Alterities in Folk Culture and the Symbolics of Calendar Time
5. The "Teachings of the Lord of Heaven" in Fujian
6. "Birthday of the Sun"
Han-Script Glossary
List of Contributors
Index