Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain_ Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China\'s Borderlands
imperial pastoralism was devoted to confining itinerant Mongols through delineating the space of their environmental relations, ...
These immense state complexes often overlapped to accommodate expedient transfers of excess livestock between the densely packed ...
uprising, the defeated Chakhar rebels were relocated from their home territories to areas in Xuanhua and Datong subprefectures a ...
herd size to four hundred head from much smaller groups ranging from 230 to 312 head prevalent since 1725.^26 Although breeding ...
space. Herding in this way was less subject to human manipulation than agriculture, which could employ a wider range of intensiv ...
table 8 Vital Statistics, Three-Banner and Dariganga Sheep Flocks, 1739 –^1760 Date a (Qianlong) Mortality (%) Remainder (Head) ...
Table 8 (cont. ) Date a (Qianlong) Mortality (%) Remainder (Head) Births (%) Round-up (Head) Change from Previous Year (%) 18 /^ ...
inner mongolia’s extreme weather In environmental terms, imperial pastoralism was the particular adaptation required by grasslan ...
“perfect storm”of drought anddzudoccurred, in 1999 – 2001 , it killed off 30 percent (about 8 – 10 million head) of Mongolia’s t ...
be related to the so-called Little Ice Age or to more localized climate variation. China is held to have experienced significant ...
human intervention such as industrial-scale Han migration or agriculture. Under the relatively unmitigated steppe conditions bef ...
the animals to the Dörbed. Finally, within a few months some of these same Khorchin would likewise need aid in the wake of a dro ...
vegetables. The emperor’s inclination to, in effect,“let them eat rabbits” was reinforced by his conviction that“rich”Ordos lama ...
stockpiled in a pastoral version of an ever-normal granary to provide such emergency aid. Instead, the main source of relief liv ...
encouraged convergence between hoshuu and state herds. Banner livestock was also often purchased out of advances of annual herde ...
here the inevitability of wolf attacks, to assert their own conflicting agencies. Outcomes were nonetheless conditioned by this ...
The throne’s evaluation of its two basic strategies for providing virtually annual disaster relief for Inner Mongolia reveals a ...
they would be so supplied from the confiscated animals. Each household received three large animals and ten sheep; single men go ...
for purchase of livestock and grain and even obtained wives for those who had lost them.^70 Other refugee groups, such as the To ...
herder-livestock resource competition: milk Milk was one such contentious resource. Qing policies in Mongolia were generally con ...
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