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MIAOTSZE, or MIAUTSE

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 354 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MIAOTSZE, or MIAUTSE , one of the aboriginal tribes of southern
China
 . At one time they occupied a considerable portion of the fertile lands which now form the central province of the
empire
 , but as the
Chinese
  advanced southwards they were driven into the
mountain
  districts of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwei-chow, Kwang-si and Kwang-tung, where they are found at the present day. As early as the reign of King Suan (about 800 B.C.) we read of an expedition having been sent to drive them out of Hu-nan. The last important campaign against them was undertaken by the emperor K'ien-lung, who, having completely subjugated the Eleuths, attacked the Miaotsze, who suffered a crushing defeat, and were compelled to
purchase
  peace by swearing
allegiance
  to their conquerors. They still maintain a semi-independence in their
mountain
 -homes, but are a decaying race, gradually giving way before the
Chinese
 . They are allowed to govern themselves on their own patriarchal
system
 . The Miaotsze of both sexes are shorter and darker-complexioned than the Chinese, their faces are rounder and their features sharper.
See Sketches of the Miau-tsze, trans. by E. C. Bridgman; J. Edkins, The Miautsi Tribes, their History; and " Quaint Customs in Kweichow," Cornhill Magazine (Jan. 1872);
Playfair
 , The Maotzu of Kwei-chow and Yunnan (London, 1877) ; A. R. Colquhoun, Across Chryse (1883).


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