Lifanyuan and Libu in Early Qing Empire Building / Chia Ning -- The Lifanyuan: A Review Based on New Sources and Traditional Historiography / Michael Weiers -- The Lifanyuan and Stability during Qing Imperial Expansion -- The Libu and Qing Perception, Classification, and Administration of Non-Han People / Zhang Yongjiang -- Lifanyuan and Libu in the Qing Tribute System / Chia Ning -- The Qing Court and Peoples of Central and Inner Asia: Representations of Tributary Relationships from the Huang Qing Zhigong tu / Laura Hostetler -- Manchu-Mongolian Controversies over Judicial Competence and the Formation of the Lifanyuan / Dorothea Heuschert-Laage -- The Sino-Russian Trade and the Role of the Lifanyuan, 17th-18th Centuries / Ye Baichuan and Yuan Jian -- On Lifanyuan and Qianlong Policies Towards the Muslims of Xinjiang / Song Tong -- Lifanyuan and Tibet / Fabienne Jagou -- From Lifanyuan to the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission / Mei-hua Lan -- Clashes of Administrative Nationalisms: Banners and Leagues vs. Counties and Provinces in Inner Mongolia / Uradyn E. Bulag -- Dealing with Nationalities in Imperial Formations: How Russian and Chinese Agencies Managed Ethnic Diversity in the 17th to 20th Centuries / Dittmar Schorkowitz.