Daniel McMahon is a professor in the Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

• Introduction PART I Historiographical perspectives 1. Perspectives in North American Research on Qing China’s frontiers PART II Conceptual perspectives 2. Were the Miao Kings "Prophets of Renewal"? The case of the 1795–1797 Hunan Miao revolt 3. The middle ground, "middle ground moments," and accommodation in the study of later Qing borderland history PART III New military history 4. Geomancy and walled fortifications on a late eighteenth-century Qing borderland 5. Fortified walls and social ordering in Qing China’s early Jiaqing borderland revolts PART IV Political discourse analysis 6. Treachery at imperial edges: criminality and bureaucratic classification as jian in middle Qing China 7. Marking "men of iniquity": imperial purpose and imagined boundaries in the Qing processing of rebel ringleaders, 1786–1828 Appendix 1. Translation: Yan Ruyi’s "Conditions and customs in the mountains"

Daniel McMahon is a professor in the Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

• Introduction PART I Historiographical perspectives 1. Perspectives in North American Research on Qing China’s frontiers PART II Conceptual perspectives 2. Were the Miao Kings "Prophets of Renewal"? The case of the 1795–1797 Hunan Miao revolt 3. The middle ground, "middle ground moments," and accommodation in the study of later Qing borderland history PART III New military history 4. Geomancy and walled fortifications on a late eighteenth-century Qing borderland 5. Fortified walls and social ordering in Qing China’s early Jiaqing borderland revolts PART IV Political discourse analysis 6. Treachery at imperial edges: criminality and bureaucratic classification as jian in middle Qing China 7. Marking "men of iniquity": imperial purpose and imagined boundaries in the Qing processing of rebel ringleaders, 1786–1828 Appendix 1. Translation: Yan Ruyi’s "Conditions and customs in the mountains"

Daniel McMahon is a professor in the Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

• Introduction PART I Historiographical perspectives 1. Perspectives in North American Research on Qing China’s frontiers PART II Conceptual perspectives 2. Were the Miao Kings "Prophets of Renewal"? The case of the 1795–1797 Hunan Miao revolt 3. The middle ground, "middle ground moments," and accommodation in the study of later Qing borderland history PART III New military history 4. Geomancy and walled fortifications on a late eighteenth-century Qing borderland 5. Fortified walls and social ordering in Qing China’s early Jiaqing borderland revolts PART IV Political discourse analysis 6. Treachery at imperial edges: criminality and bureaucratic classification as jian in middle Qing China 7. Marking "men of iniquity": imperial purpose and imagined boundaries in the Qing processing of rebel ringleaders, 1786–1828 Appendix 1. Translation: Yan Ruyi’s "Conditions and customs in the mountains"