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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/mining-industry-caravan-transp
 ortation-and-ethnic-mobilization-southwest-china-17th-19th/
SUMMARY:The Mining Industry\, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilizatio
 n in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:\n	Ma Jianxiong (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Division
  of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\; HYI Visi
 ting Scholar)\n	Chair/discussant: Michael Szonyi (Professor of Chinese His
 tory\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co
 -sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	This talk wi
 ll review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between
  Yunnan and Burma\, in particular the social organization of miners in rem
 ote mountainous areas. Two types of ethnic mobilization among the Hui and 
 the Lahu will be examined. These two ethnic minorities were mobilized thro
 ugh different channels to politically resist the Qing government in interi
 or counties and exterior chieftains. This was due to the political influen
 ce of unemployed miners\, which arose from the decline of borderland silve
 r mines in the early 19th century and local governments’ subsequent fail
 ure to manage social mobility as miners shifted their work to agriculture 
 or business. The talk aims to study how cooperative transportation system 
 networks became interwoven by different social actors in cities and mines\
 , especially caravan muleteers whose mobility in metal transportation and 
 commercial circulations was bound to the development of the mining industr
 y and ethnic politics in southwest China. Different social sections cooper
 ated through mediators such as the caravan muleteers\, silver miners and e
 xiled monks. In general\, this talk will explain the historical reconstruc
 tion of borderland society in southwest China\, showing how ethnic mobiliz
 ation was a social consequence of economic and political transformation re
 sulting from the extension of state governance in mountain areas from the 
 Ming to the Qing.    
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