Legal Practices, Colonial Rivalry, and Identity in China's Borderlands, 1880-1940
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19K23102
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0103:History, archaeology, museology, and related fields
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-08-30 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Keywords | Sino-Burmese borderlands / Legal Pluralism / Border Disputes / Ethnic Identity / State-building / Colonialism / China's borderlands / border disputes / legal practices / ethnic identity / colonial rivalry / Sino-Burmese Borderlands / Legal institutions / Ethnicity / Border disputes |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research will compare legal practices in China's border regions with British Burma, French Indochina, and Russia from the 1880s until the 1940s. It will examine the role of these legal practices in creating new discourses of ethnic identity and promoting China's state-building efforts. This objective will be achieved through the analysis of legal cases and government correspondence housed in archives in Europe and Asia. In this regard, this research will provide a better understanding of China's transition from an empire to a nation-state during this period.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I have examined the relationship between pluralistic legal practices, state-building, and the formation of identities along China's border regions with Burma and Russia from the 1880s until the 1940s. The analytical framework of this research project has provided a deeper understanding of the role of legal institutions in state-building practices along China's multiethnic borderlands. The results have been presented at conferences in Japan, Europe, and North America. Drawing on previously untapped archival sources that I collected from various countries, I have submitted three journal articles currently under review. I am also in the process of completing a book manuscript on legal practices along the Sino-Burmese borderlands. The manuscript discusses the implications, relevance, and legacy of these legal practices in the conceptualization of the Chinese nation-state and the development of national and ethnic identities among border populations.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This project is the first book-length study on legal practices in the Sino-Burmese borderlands that draws on untapped archival sources in various languages. It provides new insights on the role of legal practices in the creation of new discourses on ethnic identity and national belonging.
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Research Products
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