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James Reardon-Anderson. Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644–1937. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 288. $60.00.

In the American historical imagination, the frontier occupies a special place as the locus of freedom, opportunity, and self-actualization. Lively debates about the nature of the frontier and its relationship to the core from which it may have developed have animated historians from Frederick Jackson Turner to the present. An important feature of James Reardon-Anderson's authoritative study of modern China's expansion into the vast northern territories of Manchuria (northeast China) and Inner Mongolia is that it not only confronts key issues in modern Chinese historiography, such as the nature of the Manchu state and China's premodern economy, but also engages the comparative history dialogue on frontiers to examine what has hitherto been viewed almost entirely from a sinocentric perspective. The author's core thesis is that, rather than creating a new society with novel social norms and organization and innovative economic practices, "the Chinese occupation of Manchuria appears as the seamless extension of an existing society and culture across the fading boundary of the Great Wall" (p. 101).

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