The Sipsong Panna Tai and the Limits of Qing Conquest in YunnanFootnote¹

1 This paper 1s pan of a larger dissenation project on the Qing relationship with the westem and southern Yunnan frontier. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at Yale University in 1996 at the annual meeting for the New England Conference ofthe Association for Asian Studies and at the 49th Annual Meeting ofthe Association for Asian Studies in 1997. I thank my aavisors Beatrice S. Banlen and Jonathan D. Spence for their help. Professors Philip Kuhn and Peter Perdue also provided helpful comments. Rick Belsky, John Carroll. Shiwei Chen, Richard Horowitz, Carohne Reeves, and Dex Wilson all have read versions ofthis material, and I thank them for their input.

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