China's Last Imperial Frontier
Wang, Xiuyu![China's Last Imperial Frontier](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/148/14892874/CHSBZCOP0314892874.jpg)
China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftaincies and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by redrawing the politically diverse frontier into a system of Chinese-style counties. Historically, at all the s...