Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain

Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands

David A. Bello (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-06884-1 (ISBN)

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In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.

David Bello is an Associate Professor of East Asian History at Washington and Lee University, Virginia.

Introduction; 1. Qing fields in theory and practice; 2. The nature of imperial foraging in the SAH basin; 3. The nature of imperial pastoralism in southern Inner Mongolia; 4. The nature of imperial indigenism in southwestern Yunnan; 5. Borderland Hanspace in the nineteenth century; 6. Qing environmentality.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Environment and History
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white; 5 Maps
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	650 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-107-06884-3 / 1107068843
ISBN-13	978-1-107-06884-1 / 9781107068841
Zustand	Neuware