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List of Maps | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Ideology, Rulership, and History | p. 9 |
Conquest and the Blessing of the Past | p. 29 |
Imperial Universalism and Circumscription of Identity | p. 36 |
The Great Wall | p. 53 |
Trial by Identity | p. 57 |
A Discourse on Ancestry | p. 58 |
Political Names in Nurgan | p. 74 |
The Liaodongese | p. 84 |
The Character of Loyalty | p. 89 |
The Early Nikan Spectrum | p. 90 |
Conquest and Distinctions | p. 99 |
Personifications of Fidelity | p. 116 |
The Father's House | p. 129 |
Boundaries of Rule | p. 135 |
Origins of the Khanship | p. 138 |
The Collegial Impulse | p. 157 |
The Reinvention of Treason | p. 167 |
Empire and Identity | p. 177 |
Subjugation and Equality | p. 178 |
Generating Imperial Authority | p. 185 |
Authenticity | p. 192 |
Surpassing Limits | p. 205 |
The Celestial Pillar | p. 217 |
The Wheel-Turning King | p. 223 |
The Center | p. 224 |
Debating the Past | p. 246 |
The Power of Speech | p. 262 |
The Universal Prospect | p. 281 |
The Banner Elites | p. 285 |
Shady Pasts | p. 290 |
Manchuness | p. 296 |
Following Chinggis | p. 311 |
The Empty Constituency | p. 327 |
Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire | p. 337 |
Bibliography | p. 363 |
Abbreviations | p. 389 |
Index | p. 391 |
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