Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain_ Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China\'s Borderlands
Introduction I think back afar to Han and Tang, Song and Ming; Guarding the Great Wall being their sole scheme for tranquility. ...
paid the Qing what was probably the greatest tribute of Han historiog- raphy possible at the time. They praised the geographical ...
employed a different strategy, adapted for local conditions, to control each of these borderland zones, which I have metaphorica ...
“dialectically connected to”animals, reflect constructions dependent, not imposed, on local ecologies.^9 Although there is a cul ...
1716 vermilion rescript on Ordos droughts and snowstorms, is again exemplary. His anger is entirely undiluted by any considerati ...
human-to-human connections...or of object-to-object connections, but will probably zigzag from one to the other.”Others have gon ...
themselves and transformers of their environment.”^23 Critical studies of western colonialism have often been predicated on such ...
economy. The region’s preexisting patchiness allowed the emergence of bothfishing and farming cultures that“practiced very diffe ...
disharmony,” intrinsic to all life processes. These dynamics move to promote wider, more diversifying, and more stable circulati ...
Luo Kanglong’s study of agricultural and ethnic distinctions between vari- ous forms of rice cultivation in the southwest, Zhao ...
0500 250 750 km 0 250 500 miles TAIWAN GUANGDONG GUANGXI GUIZHOU HUNAN JIANGXI FUJIAN SICHUAN YUNNAN TIBET XINJIANG QINGHAI MONG ...
The line has also been found to delineate an ecotone zone. This transi- tion area is uniquely defined by scales of space, time, ...
This has been a comparative disadvantage, past and present, for these less centralized formations. Structured by more“tribal”typ ...
tribute, borderland Manchus experienced radical alterations of their environmental ties as alienation from the foraging that had ...
as much from Qing success as from its failure in the process of imperial borderland construction. The realm’s primary contradict ...
things in tune throughout its existing domains by the onset of the nine- teenth. As I hope the following pages will show, howeve ...
11 Shaw,“Happy in Our Chains?” 1 – 2. For more informed critiques of, gener- ally popular, accounts based on environmental deter ...
23 Cited in Young,Postcolonialism, 8. 24 Representative works are reviewed in Waley-Cohen,“The New Qing His- tory,” 193 – 206. C ...
proper and the Mongolian steppe. While Lattimore is often more nuanced in his assertions than might be expected in a work that i ...
Manchu archives and their organization have been surveyed in Guo Mengxiu, Manwen wenxian gailun; Elliott,“The Manchu-Language Ar ...
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