Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain_ Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China\'s Borderlands
unpropitious for riziculture but full of buried treasure crammed amid crowded peaks laced with disease. Dynastic authorities wou ...
demonstrated that southwestern swiddening is a viable adaptation to ecologies rich in sylvan resources and low in population. Yi ...
particular, disease-determined niches within the larger mountainscape then being opened to cultivation. In Kaihua prefecture for ...
Moreover, swiddening of New World hillside crops such as potatoes as well as Old World cultivars such as taro is quite compatibl ...
distinctive adaptation to the highland environment.”Unfortunately, this adaptation relied on ephemeral forms of shifting cultiva ...
made further production impossible, including indigenous swiddening and foraging activities. Christian Daniels has argued such p ...
reign, the Luohei’s activities in gaps between chieftainships andjunxian jurisdictions in southern Shunning and Pu’er triggered ...
in Yunnan and elsewhere in southwestern China were extremely limited in terms of full abolition, although local powers were gene ...
of the civilized [shu] Miao sort, who hitherto did not much cultivate paddy rice. All of them were ordered to form tenant househ ...
for this paradise. However, variation in disease and cultivation inhibited incorporation of Yunnan borderlands via the concentra ...
blocked the advance of Hanjunxianjurisdictions to perpetuate native chieftainship rule. Qing authorities grudgingly admitted the ...
genusAnopheles. Not until thirty-five years later, in 1935 – 36 , was mal- aria scientifically confirmed endemic to Yunnan, as w ...
symptoms culminate in coma accompanied by fever with a mortality rate of 25 to 50 percent, which occurs within one to three days ...
increase in human mortality rates among previously uninfected popula- tions. In like manner, anotherP. falciparumvector,Anophele ...
These beliefs had emerged from a long Chinese struggle with malaria that can be traced back to at least the third century BCE. R ...
traits arising from southwestern Yunnan’s disease environment that conferred a greater resistance, ifby no means total immunity, ...
Casualty lists from the Myanmar campaign reports strongly suggest differential resistance among multiethnic soldiery, although v ...
resistant to malaria than Han Chinese, Mongols, or Manchus. The Qianlong emperor was sufficiently concerned about the disease en ...
immediate violent aftermath were substantially impelled by a struggle to control the tea hills that provided the area’s main sou ...
malarial locales, in favor of a limited and meager tax on indigenous producers.^84 Indigenous peoples and disease prevented full ...
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