Frontier People: Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China - Hardcover

'Hansen's meticulous research has lent a voice to the many life histories, hopes, achievements and disappointments of the millions of Chinese at China's frontiers, giving an invaluable glimpse of the innumerable strands that make up the story of China's colonisation of its borderlands since 1949. [...] As in countless other Chinese places, a few idiosyncratic customs, by now simply considered part of the local variant of Han Chinese culture, may all be that will survive of a non-Chinese origin that has been forgotten, if not actively denied.' --Times Higher Educational Supplement

Aims to contest conventional ways of presenting Han immigrants in minority areas as a homogenous group of colonisers with shared identification, equal status and access to power. This book demonstrates that the category of 'Han immigrants' is fragmented in terms of generation, ethnic identification, migration history, class and economic activity.